The Subject
Short description
You have been taken prisoner and sold to a deep space testing facility. Upon arrival, you are fitted with a device forcing you to participate in their experiment. Released into a massive complex, the dark halls wind around testing rooms and conceal pieces to puzzles. There is no option but to comply.
- Developer
- DarkStone Digital
- Publisher
- DarkStone Digital
- Release
- Fri, Nov 30, 2018
- Price
- $4.99
- Reviews
- 46
- Positive
- 65%
- Followers
- 773
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie
- Features
- Partial Controller Support
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $4.99 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 26, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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