ROUTINE

Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.

Every market we collect.

Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 11.71/day in the week to Jul 30 → 11/day in the week after.

For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 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.

Hours played at review time, across 1.2K reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

With its core gameplay loop, Routine doesn't present too much in the way of novel innovations. What it does do, is present a highly authored and competent artistic vision, clearly made with a lot of love by a small group of talented people. Re-watching the initial trailer from 2013, I was a little shocked to see how consistent the ultimate product was with that conceptual piece made on an earlier version of the Unreal Engine. Playing the game, I would think about similarities with other great games that presented themselves, from Alien Isolation, to Soma, to Still Wakes The Deep; but I couldn't ignore the fact that a fairly solid piece of this vision existed before any of these games were sent out to the market. Despite being made to think of a number of similarities to other games, I couldn't help but be enchanted by the final product for its inherent qualities. I was compelled to continue pushing through across several long play sessions, longer than I might normally reserve for games that cause as much anxiety as Routine does at times. The game's semi-invincible stalkers can be mitigated fairly easily, but I found the combination of presentation and sound design kept me on edge, even when I instinctively knew I could circumvent most confrontations. The game's story and lore, presented in a fairly rote manner through audiologs, diary entries, and email; nonetheless had me enthralled until the end. I found the conclusion to offer more than enough for a satisfying narrative loop with a good balance of fairly definitive answers and open-to-interpretation imagery. I also enjoyed the analog and hands off approach to the game's various puzzles, which often left me stumped for a time but always motivated enough to work it out myself rather than resorting to a walkthrough. I imagine it's a very hard thing to balance player assistance and motivate critical thought on the player's part to solve problems as presented, and I believe Lunar Software has done a great job. I felt like the game was about the perfect length, but I certainly am left very excited to see what these devs cook up next. Let's hope it doesn't take 13 years this time, though I'll wait just the same.