Californium
Short description
Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?
- Developer
- ARTE France, Darjeeling, Nova Production
- Publisher
- ARTE France
- Release
- Wed, Feb 17, 2016
- Price
- $6.99
- Reviews
- 266
- Positive
- 71%
- Followers
- 1,852
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $6.33, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $6.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
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