Proteus

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Proteus

Short description

Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.

Developer
Ed Key and David Kanaga
Publisher
Twisted Tree
Release
Wed, Jan 30, 2013
Price
$9.99
Reviews
1,414
Positive
82%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
200K – 500K
Concurrent players
2
Genres
Adventure, Casual, Indie
Features
Full controller support
Tags
Exploration Walking Simulator Relaxing Indie Casual Procedural Generation Experimental First-Person Beautiful Adventure Atmospheric Singleplayer Great Soundtrack Pixel Graphics Open World Music Surreal Cute Sandbox Short
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$568ksomewhere between $252k and $4.5m · roughly 28K–500K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $8.92, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $9.99 launch price. That is 11% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

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

Revenue (est.) ~$568k → ~$568k
Reviews 1,414 → 1,414
Positive reviews 82.5% → 82.5%

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. 216 further data points reach back to Jan 1, 2013 — 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: $2.00 on Jan 6, 2014.

How crowded is this niche?

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

±?? Exploration + Walking Simulator + Relaxing

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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 Proteus. 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)
Superflight Superflight GrizzlyGames 4 titles 4 − Exploration − Walking Simulator + Flight + Atmospheric $2.99 11,049 96% Wed, Nov 08, 2017 $1.5m
$1.5m – $2.6m
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$4m – $8.9m
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$2.7m – $4.5m
Rainy Season Rainy Season Inasa Fujio 2 titles 4 − Exploration − Procedural Generation + Atmospheric + Anime $3.99 546 96% Wed, Aug 19, 2020 $98k
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Drizzlepath Drizzlepath Tonguç Bodur 27 titles 4 − Relaxing − Procedural Generation + Adventure + Atmospheric $1.99 517 55% Thu, Mar 12, 2015 $44k
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