CaseCracker

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CaseCracker

Short description

No flashy visuals, just pure mental gymnastics. Actively search, cross-reference, and unravel the truth from a complex database. In this hardcore text-based deduction game, the devil is always in the details. Detective, are you ready?

Developer
BlackRobe
Publisher
BlackRobe
Release
Mon, Dec 19, 2022
Price
$9.99
$3.99
60%
best price ever
Reviews
3,284
Positive
89%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
100K – 200K
Concurrent players
42
Genres
Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy
Tags
Text-Based Detective Puzzle Psychological Horror Hacking RPG Word Game 2D Story Rich Strategy Simulation Typing Casual First-Person Realistic Logic Drama Mystery Adventure Singleplayer
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$1.4msomewhere between $919k and $1.8m · roughly 100K–200K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $9.19, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $9.99 launch price. That is 8% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

3 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$1.4m → ~$1.4m
Reviews 3,284 → 3,284
Price $3.99 → $3.99
Positive reviews 89.5% → 89.5%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 129 further data points reach back to May 1, 2022 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $3.99 on May 13, 2026. That is the current price.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around CaseCracker is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Text-Based + Detective + Puzzle

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with CaseCracker. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Unheard - Voices of Crime Unheard - Voices of Crime NEXT Studios 8 titles 3 − Text-Based − Psychological Horror − Hacking + Mystery + Indie + Simulation $6.99 31,111 96% Thu, Mar 28, 2019 $9.8m
$7m – $14m
Pony Island Pony Island Daniel Mullins Games 5 titles 3 − Text-Based − Detective − RPG + Indie + Pixel Graphics + Singleplayer $4.99 14,874 95% Mon, Jan 04, 2016 $3.3m
$2.5m – $5m
Cyber Manhunt Cyber Manhunt Aluba Van+ 5 titles 3 − Text-Based − Detective − Psychological Horror + Simulation + Indie + Mystery $9.99 14,563 92% Tue, Feb 02, 2021 $6.5m
$5m – $10m
Turlock Holmes Turlock Holmes Find the Lamp Games 4 titles 3 − Text-Based − Hacking − RPG + Crime + Mystery + Word Game $9.99 885 80% Wed, Feb 21, 2024 $500k
$500k – $707k
Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis Frogwares 20 titles 3 − Text-Based − Psychological Horror − Hacking + Adventure + Point & Click + Mystery $9.99 673 71% Thu, Aug 07, 2008 $237k
$105k – $1.6m

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