# The ORPHEUS Ruse

Summer DB entity ID: e86268b5\-1c53\-4139\-8493\-9c142d988bb4

Steam App ID: 428020

Infiltrate the enemy as a psychic spy, leaping from body to body by touch\! But when your own body is stolen, you'll race against time to find it before your mind disintegrates\.    The ORPHEUS Ruse is a thrilling interactive spy novel by Paul Gresty, where your choices control the story\. It's entirely text\-based\-\-without graphics or sound effects\-\-and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination\.    What secrets have your mentors been keeping from you? Can you trust your friends when you don't know whose face they're wearing? What will you sacrifice to hide your powers from the world?

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Choice of Games

- Publisher: Choice of Games

- Release date: Dec 18, 2015

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/428020/ss\_5ec66840db24a14f41a7aa3893ad78cabfb98772\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114719, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/428020/ss\_a765909ae670169b1e50c406361fab103f982780\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114719, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/428020/ss\_25798b804ca7b3e196446af1069d4a9ac475f3b5\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114719, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/428020/ss\_6bf81395d5b162c3c56672fb6e499276e3202534\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114719, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/428020/ss\_266a7106561b357e8d22b549b260955c7666fa6f\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114719

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 8

- Steam positive reviews: 5

- Steam negative reviews: 3

- Steam positive percentage: 62.5%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/e86268b5-1c53-4139-8493-9c142d988bb4/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/e86268b5-1c53-4139-8493-9c142d988bb4/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\-22T08:15:12\.082027\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T08:15:13\.364859\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T08:15:13\.10797\+00:00

Full provenance: \{"urls":\{"price":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/428020/","catalog":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/IStoreService/GetAppList/v1/","details":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/428020/","players":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/?appid=428020","reviews":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/appreviews/428020"\},"price":"2026\-09\-22T08:15:12\.082027\+00:00","source":"steam","catalog":"2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00","country":"US","details":"2026\-09\-22T08:15:12\.082027\+00:00","players":"2026\-09\-22T08:15:13\.364859\+00:00","reviews":"2026\-09\-22T08:15:13\.10797\+00:00","language":"en","editorial":null,"membership":"store\_catalog","observations":\{"price":"f8d67981\-0dea\-40a0\-a126\-06b14f226bba","catalog":"e429e52a\-7309\-4be5\-9395\-e40c78cfea9b","details":"3ddc65df\-3608\-40da\-8411\-8056215b0434","players":"166ea73b\-aa08\-4814\-abd1\-c15a6060ad63","reviews":"6d871b07\-66ba\-4b55\-b889\-5a6f2946be19"\},"reviewFilters":\{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}\}

Native rating methodology: \{"count":0,"average":null,"entityId":"e86268b5\-1c53\-4139\-8493\-9c142d988bb4","revision":0,"observedAt":null,"methodology":"arithmetic\-v1","distribution":\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\]\}

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.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/428020/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/e86268b5-1c53-4139-8493-9c142d988bb4)