# Distress: A Choice\-Driven Sci\-Fi Adventure

Summer DB entity ID: ed06da08\-4071\-412e\-8580\-679ef04ad466

Steam App ID: 960550

A fading distress signal from a space station that’s gone silent\. A metropolis filled with dark secrets, death lurking in every alleyway\. Welcome to Nova\-8\. Step into the boots of Demetria Barton, one of the galaxy’s greatest bounty hunters, and lead her team to a mysterious city in search of answers and riches\.  Distress is a branching visual novel inspired by the likes of Silent Hill, Snatcher, and Mass Effect\. Trapped in a city filled with deadly creatures and a ruthless militarized task force controlled by a shadowy administrator, you’ll have to use your wits and make tough decisions in order to survive\. You’re responsible not just for your own life, but the lives of your crew as well\. Make your choices\. Live with the consequences\.   Good luck, captain\.   Features :    A 100K word branching sci\-fi horror story with over 100 endings written and designed by Javy Gwaltney, the creator of The Terror Aboard The Speedwell, You Were Made For Loneliness, and The Right Side Of Town    Beautiful art from professional illustrator and cartoonist Ian Higginbotham\.    An electric, synthwave soundtrack by composer Erandi Huipe \(The Right Side Of Town\)\.    Free access to all current and future post\-launch content\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Light Machine

- Publisher: Light Machine

- Release date: Nov 6, 2018

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/960550/ss\_fe4c85f2cfce7bb933dd40920871da807210dad7\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1572300814, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/960550/ss\_5c2a63a8313b0a9c8252a90654b953cd9c6ca636\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1572300814, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/960550/ss\_f203116368ccb1ffcbd0a967df755891be49502d\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1572300814, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/960550/ss\_4a7554b2808e81a0a4ee01adc6e14e81c80a6a4d\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1572300814, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/960550/ss\_0a94978e24a4f56718f3a9c1613904f1d7cb850c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1572300814, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/960550/ss\_f71ad7716aa1109678676e698010f0b5f3bb19aa\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1572300814

- Price: 599 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 9

- Steam positive reviews: 9

- Steam negative reviews: 0

- Steam positive percentage: 100%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/ed06da08-4071-412e-8580-679ef04ad466/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/ed06da08-4071-412e-8580-679ef04ad466/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\-23T21:10:33\.423944\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T21:10:34\.87248\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T21:10:34\.462807\+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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