Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
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): 0.57/day in the week to Aug 13 → 2/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 2,402 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.
About
Break free from a mysterious time loop! Embark on a journey of self-discovery and resilience. Delve into the enigmatic depths of the small godforsaken town: Rue Valley.
Each day feels like an uphill battle against the shadows of your own mind. Along the way, you will encounter a captivating ensemble of characters, each wrestling with their own emotional complexities and revealing hidden depths as you get to know them.
Can you muster the courage to unravel the secrets of this temporal anomaly? Can you discover the strength within yourself to rise above adversity and forge a brighter tomorrow?
Craft your own personality in Rue Valley. You can be a cold-hearted loner who overthinks everything or a melodramatic loudmouth who always trusts their gut instinct.
Whether you reflect your true personality or role-play someone entirely different, your character will shape your dialogues and interactions in the game.
Store memories in a graph, unlocking intentions and mindsets as you progress uniquely through the story. Commit to quirky mindsets for unexpected and hilarious dialogues, and experience personality-altering Status Effects: become more outgoing when drunk, or extra sensitive when anxious.
Experiment with different answers and timelines, because the loop will restart from the beginning anyway, won't it?
Genres
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, GOG, Epic, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $14.99 | 1.9Kreviews | 70% | — | $453.3K |
| $14.99 | 232ratings | 76% | — | not modelled | |
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 137 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
good game, good story, the game let you do what you want, no hint, no little voice that tell you what to do, just a board of idea and record of what you did and what you can do. the motivation system works well, but seems a bit too rewarding when you dig in the game, never had issue with motivation. And even if you fail a social check, no problem you can try smth else or spend more motivation to retry. Didn't finished it yet but for now its a great game, and it cost only 14€, worth its price, try it.
The idea is intriguing, the beginning is promising, and you can clearly see a lot of people were really passionate about their work, especially artists, animators and voice actors. But all of those could not make up for the writing and game design in general. Time loop as a storytelling tool has so many disadvantages and the game design behind Rue Valley only amplifies them. Lots of repetitiveness, your time is always being wasted and on top of that the inexplicable focus on little mundane details of life of every npc. Like imagine you one day find yourself in a time loop and all you do almost every iteration is find out more and more about personal life of complete strangers, like why the owner of a nearby bar got divorced a couple of years ago or what is the relationship between a random guy on a random farm and his passed away grandfather. All these tidbits of info don't lead to anything more interesting or important, for some reason you are just tasked to build a complete picture of the personal life of like a dozen people living around main character. All the good things about Rue Valley just fade away until all you feel is your time being wasted. The gameplay does not feel meaningful in any way, I feel like only the first hour of the game is worth playing through. I'm completely puzzled at what the target audience is and how the game has passed playtests at all. I understand the devs were going for Disco Elysium-like, but oh my god how deep the gap is between this game and DE. In Rue Valley you are just trapped in a loop where nothing entertaining happens at all
Media
Related
Related
Price dynamics, follower growth, revenue and sales trajectories with interactive tooltips
This and every other Pro feature is free until October 20, 2026. A free account is all it takes.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese
| $14.99 |
| 76ratings |
| 78% |
| — |
| not modelled |
| $5.99−60% | 44ratings | 72% | — | not modelled |
| $14.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
| $14.99 | — | — | — | 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.
Hours played at review time, across 137 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
В этой игре хочется нажраться от лица главного героя и творить х***ю как Гаррье Дюбуа, это уж точно. Ни в коем случае не сравниваю игру с Disco Elysium, в ней есть свой шарм, но у меня главный герой какой-то ребёнок в теле взрослого. Естественно будет попытка пройти игру второй раз, только уже с другими характеристиками персонажа. Всё что хочется сказать, так это что игра явно зайдёт любителям "временной петли". 47 минут твоего личного изучения окрестностей Рью-Велли и достаточно живых персонажей. Пока проходим дальше...
Душевная игра получилась. Она не похожа на эилизиум в этом ее плюс. Второй плюс это хороший сюжет с психологической драмой и детективными элементами. Дизайн игры тоже очень радует глаз. Пройдя эту игру, не понимаю хейта в ее сторону, возможно детям тиктока сложно на чем-то сосредоточиться дольше 5 минут без свистоперделок) Обязательно как-нибудь перепройду.
Rue Valley is NOT Disco Elysium, and that is such a good thing. These 2 games are very different, the only similarities is their genre, thats where it ends. If you come in expecting Disco Elysium, you WILL be dissapointed. I came into this not having that expectation in mind, and I was treated well. I loved the comic book art style, the writing style, and the loop aspect of the game. It felt very refreshing and fun to explore around and find out more about Rue Valley and it's citizens. There is a lot to unfold in this game, and I don't want to spoil it for anyone. Play this game if you are curious, go in with no expectations, and you will be pleasently surprised. The narrative kept me thouroughly invested, so much so that I had a hard time putting the game down. The characters are all interesting, and it feels great the more you get to learn about them. I hope we get another Rue Valley-like game, as it seems this game was made with nothing but pure passion.
I don't regret my time spent in Rue Valley. It's a small book hiding between clicks and button presses, you get to choose which part of it you're reading first and can change the tone of the narrative somewhat but yeah, you still have to be ok with reading. Some bits are funny, some are sad, some are witty and all of it is pretty good. For someone who has almost zero knowledge about psychoanalysis this game gave me some insight about depression and steps to overcoming it, maybe it wasn't super deep but still something useful to be left with at the end of the journey. I played this one as a break between action focused stuff expecting chill narrative experience and i did get that in the end so have no complaints, really.
This game suffers from pacing issues. Bad ones. Everything starts to fall apart in the second act. The story is a bit of a mess. Lean into the absurd, then pull up hard. What exactly was the point? I get that tedium is part of the storyline, but not respecting the player's time as a whole is a bit insulting. Frankly, I understand getting a "bad ending," but after 12-ish hours of enduring the "quirks" of this game, getting nothing but a credit roll and "You just couldn't do it." Felt like a bit of a slap in the face. So much so that I didn't bother save scumming for a different ending. Do I regret spending the $25? Yes, very much so.
I played a piece of garbage story writing.
It wasn't the best, but the analysis of Eugene and the overall story was interesting enough for me to put up with the shortfalls in gameplay at certain points. It is definitely flawed, but still a decent game worth getting when it's on deep sale.
Hacía meses que un juego no me tenía 7 horas pegado al monitor. Suerte que no le hice mucho caso a las reseñas, el juego es excelente. Tiene un claro problema de ritmo llegada la parte del rancho que es INFUMABLE (casi me hace dropearlo) y con que las stats solamente afecten a unos pocos checks sin reelevancia. Fuera de eso, es excelente y tremendamente interesante. No vale la pena compararlo con disco elysium, son cosas totamente distintas; este juego es lineal y no vas a afectarlo con tus decisiones, es para disfrutar de una tremenda historia con arte fantástico y buena música
Selling now
See how fast this game is selling right now — estimated copies and revenue per day from recent review growth.
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
The games this title's players most often review too — audience affinity.
Related
| Game | Estimated lifetime revenue | Reviews | Review score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2.9K | 36 | 83% | $4.99 | |
| $25.1K | 377 | 95% | $3.99 | |
| — | 0 | — | — | |
| $1.1M | 4.5K | 98% | $19.99 | |
| $904.8K | 2.5K | 84% | $24.99 | |
| $462.8K | 1.7K | 87% | $14.99 |
Related
| Game | Estimated lifetime revenue | Reviews | Review score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $453K | 4.3K | 87% | $6.69 | |
| $453.7K | 718 | 96% | $14.99 | |
| $452.9K | 1.1K | 87% | $19.99 | |
| $453.8K | 869 | 72% | $24.99 | |
| $452.8K | 562 | 64% | $19.99 | |
| $453.9K | 1.3K | 63% | $19.99 |