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Absurd Story: Back Home

Absurd Story: Back Home overview

HcAndersen | May 18, 2025 | game

Released

0players observed · 8 October 2026 - 19:54:26 UTC

AdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategySteam Store

  • Latest observed playersNot available
  • SteamPulse tracked peak5
  • Units sold (VGI)No data available
  • Revenue (VGI)No data available
  • Review score100% positive

Absurd Story: Back Home dated player observations, monthly player trends, reviews, and game metadata are tracked on SteamPulse.

  • Latest observed playersNot available
  • SteamPulse tracked peak5
  • Units sold (VGI)No data available
  • Revenue (VGI)No data available
  • Review score100% positive
  • Total reviews50
  • Release dateMay 18, 2025
  • DeveloperHcAndersen
  • PublisherHcAndersen

Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: HcAndersenPublisher: HcAndersen

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Game overview

Overview

Absurd Story: Back Home comes from HcAndersen and is published by HcAndersen. It arrived on Steam on May 18, 2025, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Full controller support, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Absurd Story: Back Home's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 8 October 2026 - 19:54:26 UTC, with a tracked peak near 5. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 100% positive across 50 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Absurd Story: Back Home is available in 2 languages including:

Simplified ChineseEnglish

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

PlatformTypeOSProcessorMemoryGraphicsStorage
WindowsMinimumNot listedIntel i5 Quad-Core4 GB RAMIntel i5 Quad-Core2 GB available space

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Absurd Story: Back Home has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Detailed game overview

Absurd Story: Back Home overview details

Absurd Story: Back Home combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Follow our xiaohongshu About the Game “Absurd Story: Back Home” is a steampunk-style adventure exploration puzzle game. It tells the story of a mechanic named “Zhou Ruoshui” who returns to his hometown to search for his parents after a catastrophic disaster in a fictional world. However, he accidentally gets involved in a bizarre adventure. In the story, various acquaintances and strangers enter the protagonist’s field of vision while searching for their parents and digging up buried truths. Setting and features The story takes place in a fictional era and city, where various characters gather. They live and work in the local area, until a disaster occurs, completely changing the place. After that, the protagonist returns to the city, wanting to find his own truth, and his longing for his relatives. art and atmosphere Based on the steampunk local design, a world where technology and mythology coexist is built. Carefully drawn coarse-grained pixel art, portraits are drawn for all characters. Most of the time it is dark, there may be some unknown weirdness. stage and cast A large part of the city’s area and buildings will become the stage of the game, presented to the players. Along the way, you can meet all kinds of people, they have all kinds of talents, and also ordinary and ordinary. exploration and puzzle By looking at the whole event through dual protagonists and multiple timelines, solve puzzles to advance the story. For the sake of narration, the puzzle design kept a low difficulty level.

SteamPulse editorial summary

Absurd Story: Back Home is listed as a game with $6.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Full controller support, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 8 October 2026 - 19:54:26 UTC, a tracked peak of 5, and 100% positive reviews.

Overview facts

FieldValue
GameAbsurd Story: Back Home
Steam App ID2499510
Typegame
Release dateMay 18, 2025
DeveloperHcAndersen
PublisherHcAndersen
Price$6.99
PlatformsWindows
GenresAdventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Strategy
CategoriesSingle-player, Full controller support, Family Sharing
Supported languagesSimplified Chinese, English
WebsiteNot available

Player and review overview

MetricValue
Latest observed players0 · 8 October 2026 - 19:54:26 UTC
SteamPulse tracked peak5
Positive reviews50
Negative reviews0
Total reviews50
Positive percent100%
Review typeVery Positive
RecommendationsNot available
Average playtimeNot available

SteamPulse record freshness

FieldValue
Steam release dateMay 18, 2025
Official Steam feed update (UTC)1 June 2026 - 20:13:11 UTC
SteamPulse last record update (UTC)8 October 2026 - 19:54:26 UTC
Live player count updated (UTC)8 October 2026 - 19:54:26 UTC
Store metadata updated (UTC)8 October 2026 - 19:54:26 UTC

Support and legal notes

FieldValue
Support email[email protected]
Support URLNot available
Legal noticeNot available

References

Official and third-party reference links for checking this Steam app outside SteamPulse.

ReferenceLink
SteamPulse canonicalhttps://steampulse.org/game/2499510
Steam Storehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2499510/
Steam Communityhttps://steamcommunity.com/app/2499510
PCGamingWiki search
IGDB searchSearch IGDB for Absurd Story: Back Home

Game FAQ

Real questions answered from SteamPulse data, including live players, monthly momentum, review sentiment, regional audience signals, Twitch activity, and current Steam pricing.

What is the latest observed Steam activity for Absurd Story: Back Home?

Absurd Story: Back Home's latest SteamPulse observation records 0 players at 8 October 2026 - 19:54:26 UTC, with a tracked peak of 5 concurrent players in the available SteamPulse record. The tracked peak is the highest value stored by SteamPulse and may not cover activity from before tracking began.

Is Absurd Story: Back Home growing or declining recently?

October 2026 is still in progress. The month-to-date average is 0 players; the highest observed daily value is 0 players. Available values are provisional and will continue changing until the UTC month closes. The completed comparison month is September 2026.

What country-level audience data is available for Absurd Story: Back Home?

In the observed sample of public reviewer profiles with a visible country, the leading shares are Spain (50%), Slovenia (50%). The separate directional player-region model assigns its leading shares to Spain (25.8%), Slovenia (25.6%), United States (8.2%). The directional follower-region model assigns its leading shares to Spain (31.1%), Slovenia (31%), United States (7.1%). The directional wishlist-region model assigns its leading shares to Spain (20.4%), Slovenia (20.3%), United States (10%). Only the reviewer view is based on observed public profile countries; the other percentages are modeled relative weights, not verified account locations or country-level user counts.

What does the Steam review footprint look like for Absurd Story: Back Home?

Absurd Story: Back Home currently sits at 100% positive across 50 Steam reviews tracked by SteamPulse, including 50 positive reviews and 0 negative reviews. Steam labels the current review summary as Very Positive.

How much follower and Twitch attention does Absurd Story: Back Home have?

Absurd Story: Back Home currently has about 229 tracked Steam followers as of 29 January 2026 - 00:00:00 UTC. On Twitch, SteamPulse is matching roughly 0 live viewers across 0 active streams for the game's category.

What is the current Steam price for Absurd Story: Back Home?

Absurd Story: Back Home is currently listed at $6.99 on Steam. SteamPulse uses the current store snapshot and historical price records to show whether the page is at full price or in a discounted window.

Reviews, pricing, and metadata

Review summary

Very Positive

100% positive, 50 positive, 0 negative

Price and discount

$6.99

Platforms

Windows

Categories

Single-player, Full controller support, Family Sharing

Achievements

Not available

Platform releases
  • Steam 19 May 2025

DLC and packages

Absurd Story: Back HomeBuy Absurd Story: Back Home #899358$5.24

System requirements

Minimum requirements

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or greater Processor: Intel i5 Quad-Core Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel i5 Quad-Core Storage: 2 GB available space

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