# Behind Closed Doors: A Developer's Tale

Summer DB entity ID: fe2ef85a\-7119\-4b35\-8d3b\-8cd2290137ad

Steam App ID: 1372940

Story  In 'Behind Closed Doors', you play as Ethan, who has an office job at an unprofessional indie company, trying to support his pregnant wife\. Behind Closed Doors plays for about 50 minutes, and is split into two sections\. In the first half, it is just a normal week for Ethan; waking up, going to work, coming home, go to bed and repeat\. But after a few days, something strange happens\. Ethan gets an unusual phone call in the middle of the night, and is somehow teleported to another dimension\. Ethan must then complete a few trials to get back to the real world\. Gameplay  Work at an office job and build an indie game with your coworkers, and play test it, getting it ready for release\. Talk with your colleagues, go home and spend time with your wife\. Get sucked into a portal where you can explore multiple different dimensions, as you try to make your way back to the real world, and back to your family\. Fight off unique enemies as you go through multiple trials with different abilities and weapons\.    Other features include     Multiple areas to explore and conquer   Boss fights   Hidden objects and memories to collect   Multiple types of enemies to destroy    Play a platformer you developed             Respond to annoying emails from customers             Code a game

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: PEW Games

- Publisher: Sometimes You

- Release date: Oct 20, 2021

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Casual, Indie

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

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1372940/ss\_b7e64b52038408df86216a1b67b505007d4e6bd6\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1641800376, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1372940/ss\_f5ccec036d8306538e7235cccd2e8271ae4bf39b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1641800376, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1372940/ss\_3eea10550de9d42cfe2559a46f57b126f87a99fc\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1641800376, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1372940/ss\_db7ba81c0b3f48dda90695e9ebd1457a2ce7650b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1641800376, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1372940/ss\_dbd36cb765affbe36838971871ec881796494a66\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1641800376, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1372940/ss\_82e8a35de69994b4cc669f7d32197430c8e0f6ed\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1641800376, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1372940/ss\_d88a103e299f16556f0f94b537e20781beec27e8\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1641800376

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 3

- Steam positive reviews: 1

- Steam negative reviews: 2

- Steam positive percentage: 33.333333333333336%

- 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/fe2ef85a-7119-4b35-8d3b-8cd2290137ad/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/fe2ef85a-7119-4b35-8d3b-8cd2290137ad/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\-25T04:08:12\.319008\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-25T04:08:13\.559262\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-25T04:08:13\.308557\+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.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1372940/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/fe2ef85a-7119-4b35-8d3b-8cd2290137ad)