Looking Back
Short description
You are a graduate student and you must defeat the ultimate boss monster: your Thesis! Develop relationships with quirky allies and improve your stats by inspecting your surroundings and making difficult choices. Will you explore and alter memories for a chance at a better life? Will you risk looking back?
- Developer
- Kristopher Poulin-Thibault
- Publisher
- Kristopher Poulin-Thibault
- Release
- Wed, Aug 07, 2019
- Price
- $2.99
- Reviews
- 6
- Positive
- 100%
- Followers
- 44
- Owners (estimated)
- 20K – 50K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Indie, RPG
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by the $2.99 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 Sep 7, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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