Need to Know
Short description
Welcome to the Department of Liberty. Ascend the ranks of the NSA-like surveillance agency and decide: will you stand up for privacy, or help create an unstoppable police state? Spy on people’s deepest secrets, pick apart their private lives and decide their fate in this modern surveillance thriller.
- Developer
- Monomyth Games
- Publisher
- Monomyth Games
- Release
- Tue, Aug 28, 2018
- Price
- $14.99
- Reviews
- 176
- Positive
- 74%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 20K – 50K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Simulation
- Features
- Steam Trading Cards
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $14.27, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $14.99 launch price. That is 5% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Aug 3, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
139 data points going back to Aug 1, 2018 lie outside the 90-day window of your plan. Plus shows the complete history.
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