# Rituals in the Dark

Summer DB entity ID: d790de1b\-fc5f\-4310\-a13f\-76ea92ff830b

Steam App ID: 1118880

Six months ago, Aspen Draper’s elderly neighbour, Mrs Leigh, died from a heart attack\. Aspen was the last person to see Mrs Leigh alive, and she was the first person to find the old woman’s body\.  After this unfortunate discovery, Aspen becomes something of a celebrity in her dreary seaside home town, Scarborough\. She’s bombarded with intrusive questions about Mrs Leigh’s death every day, and her friends are insatiably curious about the incident\. Despite Aspen’s best efforts, she’s unable to move on from the past, even as time passes\.  The winter months segue into the summer, but Mrs Leigh’s home remains unsold\. Eventually, the house is boarded up, and rumours begin to spread that it’s haunted by her restless ghost\. Then, during a sleepover with her friends Pippa and Lakhi, Aspen is made to confront her fears all over again\. Pippa dares Aspen to break into Mrs Leigh’s home to search for this elusive ghost, and Aspen is too weak\-willed and anxious to refuse\.  Under the cover of the night, Aspen returns to Mrs Leigh’s home \- but she doesn’t find eerie spectres awaiting her arrival\. Instead, she meets a strange girl called Althea, who seems to know more about Aspen than any stranger ought\. Aspen soon finds herself enchanted by the beautiful Althea, and she resolves to discover who \(or, indeed, what\) she really is\.         50k words of text    Around 3\-4 hours of reading    A kinetic storyline with no choices/branches    Detailed backgrounds and CGs    1080p display    An original soundtrack inspired by The Cure    A haunting, eerie atmosphere    A sweet lesbian romance story suitable for all ages    It’s the only visual novel set in Scarborough\!\!\! \(probably\)

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: ebi\-hime

- Publisher: ebi\-hime

- Release date: Nov 20, 2019

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie, Simulation

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

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1118880/ss\_64cab2f16627bca24d50af7f5d65f33e16981354\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1779824912, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1118880/ss\_686f4cde242dcb8ebcc1b8252ac5d3fb313bcdf8\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1779824912, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1118880/ss\_7188ffb579990584deac87c3166f25f1ee8c16d0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1779824912, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1118880/ss\_aa1df23e828a66a609ffde0b9c13cabc7dcafbc0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1779824912, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1118880/ss\_80132e4bf50a40b1e3e14bdcb31a5892dd4b64b8\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1779824912, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1118880/ss\_65bf03d621d90f50f4ad874394335888133fad84\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1779824912, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1118880/ss\_b296a6b4718c693ed15a7b61f73b4de2ddcbaa89\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1779824912

- Price: 699 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 205

- Steam positive reviews: 177

- Steam negative reviews: 28

- Steam positive percentage: 86.34146341463415%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/d790de1b-fc5f-4310-a13f-76ea92ff830b/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/d790de1b-fc5f-4310-a13f-76ea92ff830b/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\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-24T09:12:55\.565691\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-24T09:12:56\.835199\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-24T09:12:56\.38686\+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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