DEAD END
Short description
Trapped in a hallucinatory, liminal-space style underground passageway, explore and unravel the endless "dead-end" paths to find a way forward. "Dead Path is a short ambient horror puzzle game that references Exit 8, but with a completely different core mechanic.
- Developer
- Phantom Pixel
- Publisher
- Phantom Pixel
- Release
- Sun, Feb 11, 2024
- Price
- $1.99
- Reviews
- 43
- Positive
- 79%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Simulation
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $1.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Aug 13, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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The Exit 8 | KOTAKE CREATE 3 titles | 5 | − Atmospheric + First-Person | $3.99 | 11,097 | 93% | Wed, Nov 29, 2023 | $2m $886k – $2m |
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THRESHOLD | Julien Eveillé first game | 5 | − Puzzle + Dark | $9.99 | 1,096 | 85% | Tue, Nov 19, 2024 | $448k $0 – $797k |
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Fibrillation HD | Egor Rezenov 3 titles | 5 | − Puzzle + Indie | $1.99 60% |
338 | 89% | Tue, Apr 11, 2017 | $78k $78k – $105k |
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LiDAR Exploration Program | KenForest first game | 5 | − Puzzle + Adventure | $5.99 | 304 | 91% | Wed, Apr 02, 2025 | $73k $32k – $106k |
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Lazaret | Aegon Games 8 titles | 5 | − Walking Simulator + Mystery | $5.49 50% best price ever |
262 | 86% | Tue, Feb 20, 2024 | $125k $56k – $1.1m |
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