Back to the Dawn
Short description
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
- Developer
- Metal Head Games
- Publisher
- Spiral Up Games
- Release
- Thu, Jul 17, 2025
- Price
- $23.99
- Reviews
- 8,481
- Positive
- 94%
- Followers
- 45,202
- Owners (estimated)
- 200K – 500K
- Concurrent players
- 209
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy
- Features
- Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Color Alternatives, Adjustable Difficulty, Stereo Sound
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $21.07, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $23.99 launch price. That is 12% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
5 data points since Aug 12, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 88 further data points reach back to Nov 1, 2023 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $16.99 on Jun 27, 2024.
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