
Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?
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Prices
The United States storefront in every case, so this compares stores and not countries.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.14/day in the week to Aug 29 → 0/day in the week after.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 22 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Sums Steam only; GOG publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $6.99 | 412reviews | 70% | — | $102.6K |
| $9.99 | 71ratings | 60% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 44 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
A single session walking sim about a sci-fi writer in the late 60s ODing on hard drugs because his life fell apart. This is a very experimental art piece with the game part being object find with variable mechanics. It's 2 to 3 hours long. I'm mixed on it but I'll give it a thumbs up because it was thought provoking (e.g. What the hell was that?)
Def an interesting concept, stepping through the worlds of a failing sci-fi writer but it just doesn't meet the threshold of decency. The gameplay loop is way too simple with the same hidden sigil puzzle needing to be done over and over in different areas with no evolution of the puzzle's mechanics or the player's abilities to keep things interesting. There's a huge amount of bugs and has the classic Unity bug that makes looking around while moving having huge stutters on a high refresh rate monitor. I also got stuck a couple of times, making me have to restart certain chapters. I fell out of the level a few times too but fortunately you're teleported to the start again. So many graphical glitches and lack of collision allows you to unrealistically go through stuff like counters and knocked over chairs.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French*, German**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 44 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
........晕厥了
Californium 梦中情游 迷幻明快的色彩配上平面化的人物处理,给人仿佛磕嗨了的强烈的视觉冲击,同时巧妙的融入TS艾略特的诗歌,爵士乐和迷幻音乐,给了我第一次读到PKD的小说时那种如梦似幻般的体验,简直就是我想象中的PKD该有的样子 本作取材于PKD的小说《Valis》 而正如《Valis》中说的“表象世界并不存在,表象世界是终极意识所处理的信息的实体化”
艺术品,就是太晕了,从来不晕3D的人都晕
Californium est un jeu qui j'ai bien aimé mais il ne plaira clairement pas à tout le monde. Le gameplay est très minimaliste. C'est un point'n click à la première personne où le "jeu" consiste à trouver et cliquer sur des éléments dans le décor. Le genre "walking simulator". Les graphismes sont sympathiques sans plus et le doublage pas toujours exceptionnel. Le jeu se boucle très vite (3h-4h) sans vrai rejouabilité. Le principal attrait de Californium est la plongée dans l'univers (ou plutôt les univers) de Philip K.♥♥♥♥ (ok merci steam c'est très malin) et c'est en cela que je le trouve réussi. Il m'a donné envie de m'intéresser à cet auteur. En solde, c'est une bonne affaire si vous voulez connaître un aperçu de ce grand nom de la SF (nom qui n'est pas censuré automatiquement sur le synopsis du jeu).
Très cool Une seule mécanique ce qui rend le jeu presque trop long, on est plus là pour la narration et les clins d'oeils aux différentes oeuvres de K. ♥♥♥♥.
Во мне борются два человека. Первый - любитель арт-инди-игр и сложного нарратива. Второй - многолетний поклонник Филиппа Киндредовича. Первый скажет: отличная игра. Если любите тягучий геймплей, необычные механики, красивую графику и музыку - пройдите её, не пожалеете. Второй возразит: но ведь если ты выносишь в описание фамилию такого писателя, то твой уровень владения словом должен соответствовать: графомания легко убьёт такой амбициозный проект. Надо сказать, у авторов почти получилось. Почти. Я не понимаю, зачем они добавили "загадочный" закадровый голос - он абсолютно не нужен ни с нарративной, ни с геймплейной точек зрения. Он говорит плохо написанные банальности, и к тому же явно слизан с персонажа рассказчика из The Stanley Parable. Убрать его - игра сразу стала бы лучше. В любом случае Californium - глоток свежего воздуха, который подобно чудодейственному Убику, улетучивается за несколько секунд. Абсолютно безвредна, если следовать инструкции. Избегайте длительного использования.
Weird.
Excellent design choices. Engaging and fun. Exactly what you'd want out of a game like this. Only 3-4 hours long. Really great idea and very well executed.
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