Adventure · July 18, 2023

Viewfinder (2023)

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Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind. Viewfinder is a mind-bending first person adventure game in which you can bring pictures to life by placing them into the world. Reshape Reality: Beyond photographs, bring paintings, sketches, screenshots and postcards to life while reshaping the world Exploration is learning: You will learn the secrets of the world, the reason why it exists, and the freedom to create. Explore multiple hub worlds that are all cohesive and encompass similar, but complex, differences Experience as much as you want: Viewfinder’s narrative is player driven and will be an approachable experience to someone who just wants to play and solve puzzles, and a rich well thought off world to a player who wants to learn more Find the answer to the impossible, once you step in the world of Viewfinder

Adventure releases from 2023

74 Adventure titles launched in 2023 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Puzzle-Platformer · 335
  • Puzzle · 327
  • First-Person · 324
  • Singleplayer · 311
  • Abstract · 300
  • Psychological · 295
  • Surreal · 293
  • Adventure · 291
  • Physics · 289
  • Action-Adventure · 286
  • Dark Humor · 285
  • Atmospheric · 282
  • Narration · 280
  • Exploration · 278
  • 3D Platformer · 276

Peer Adventure titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume8.5k Steam reviewsTop 27% in Adventure
Positive rating94% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 34%
Metacritic84/100Genre average 77 — top 20% of Adventure titles
Engagement hours3 h averageTop 77% for session depth among Adventure

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Arabic
  • Spanish - Latin America

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Traditional Chinese

Reception Metrics

Steam community

94%Very Positive · 8.5k reviews

8.0k positive · 510 negative

Metacritic

84/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

10.0k

Press Quotes

“Spellbindingly surreal and stimulating to the end” 8/10 – IGN “one of the best puzzle games you can play today” 9/10 – GameSpot “Viewfinder is puzzle game heaven” N/A – Polygon

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

3h

brief (under 5 hours)

Median

3h

Typical completion time

Achievements

46

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateJul 18, 2023
DeveloperSad Owl Studios
PublisherThunderful Publishing
Base price$8.74 -65%
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksMetacritic page · [email protected]

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Editions & Packages

  • Buy Viewfinder