The Occupation overview

Overview

The Occupation comes from White Paper Games and is published by Balor Games. It arrived on Steam on Mar 5, 2019, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on TV, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Steam, and Xbox so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Occupation's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 02:53:56 UTC, with a tracked peak near 4. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 60% positive across 408 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Occupation is available in 8 languages including:

5 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Occupation has sold up to 15,196 units and has 184 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $327,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Occupation overview details

The Occupation combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Your role is to uncover evidence as a journalist by sneaking through restricted areas and questioning people on their actions through a series of one-on-one interviews. All this takes place in a detailed, systems-driven world where people will react to your actions and where time is your biggest enemy. At White Paper Games, we focus on world’s that feel lived in through non-linear spaces and objectives that can be solved with multiple approaches. We love games with a strong narrative drive that tackle important social issues and aim to set that standard within our own work. We understand not everyone plays for the deeper narrative experience, and for those that like the idea of trespassing, breaking into secure locations and hacking 4 digit codes, we have plenty of rule breaking opportunities to take advantage of in the world of The Occupation Instead of creating a feature list, we wanted to highlight the cool work our team of 9 have created over the past 4 years of development. Time is a precious resource to us all. Every minute in the game is a real-world minute and The Occupation is played over a fixed time length so make sure your actions count. Your watch can be used to set alarms and timers to help keep track of important objectives such as time delayed safes so you don’t have to hang around whilst security is searching for you somewhere you shouldn't be. Wherever you live, the chances are you’re in a country that could be run a little better, where trust may be feeling a little low. You may not care how their decisions impact you and you instead continue with your d…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Occupation is listed as a game with $29.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on TV, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 02:53:56 UTC, a tracked peak of 4, and 60% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Immersive SimDetectiveStealthAdventureIndieMystery1980sChoices MatterThrillerStory RichFirst-PersonFemale ProtagonistPuzzleSingleplayerPolitical

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Support and legal notes

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