# The Novelist

Summer DB entity ID: c14fe662\-0ba4\-4875\-a55f\-a2bc6ecc7825

Steam App ID: 245150

The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be\. The Kaplans have come to a remote coastal home for the summer, unaware that they’re sharing the house with a mysterious ghostly presence: you\.    Read the family’s thoughts\. Explore their memories\. Uncover their desires and intervene in their lives\. But stay out of sight; you can’t help the Kaplans if they know there’s a ghost in the house\. It’s up to you to decide how Dan’s career and family life will evolve, but choose carefully; there are no easy answers, and every choice has a cost\.    Dan’s relationships – to his work, his wife, and his son – react and shift in response to your choices\. With a different sequence of events in every playthrough, The Novelist gives life to a unique experience each time you play\.    The decisions you make will define the Kaplans’ lives, but they may also tell you something about yourself\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Orthogonal Games

- Publisher: Orthogonal Games

- Release date: Dec 10, 2013

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/245150/ss\_07746415c85c003f9ef4854955d7602bfa921355\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1702827348, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/245150/ss\_ea2cec953ae7019c5ad6871391fffb64437525c7\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1702827348, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/245150/ss\_1d666d9db3dbe77df11603810f8a994e0ade1c53\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1702827348, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/245150/ss\_95c89059f1895714958353c6229b2ecc19219c6b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1702827348, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/245150/ss\_7368b214babaad2e62c73ed1b43b12b5950db712\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1702827348, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/245150/ss\_153471f472223b5cf158b0f309ca45fecacdaa50\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1702827348, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/245150/ss\_1a6129c33e5c5b3be1b3433d9832cd68ff6fd92e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1702827348, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/245150/ss\_d540c67ccc10f158e2c8070073b92044e2d739bb\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1702827348

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 1038

- Steam positive reviews: 773

- Steam negative reviews: 265

- Steam positive percentage: 74.47013487475915%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/c14fe662-0ba4-4875-a55f-a2bc6ecc7825/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/c14fe662-0ba4-4875-a55f-a2bc6ecc7825/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-21T21:47:12\.222344\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-21T21:47:13\.783618\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-21T21:47:13\.306357\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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