A Place, Forbidden overview

Overview

A Place, Forbidden comes from Poison The Inkwell and is published by Poison The Inkwell. It arrived on Steam on Jun 25, 2020, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Partial 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

A Place, Forbidden's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 7 September 2026 - 15:40:00 UTC, with a tracked peak near 3. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 85% positive across 442 reviews.

Language and system requirements

A Place, Forbidden is available in 1 languages including:

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

Sales, recommendations, and streams

A Place, Forbidden has sold up to 13,650 units 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.

A Place, Forbidden overview details

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

Steam Store description

NEW FROM THE LIBRARY: THERE SWINGS A SKULL - GRIM TIDINGS Existential terror never looked so HOT A DARK AND EMPTY PLACE A Place, Forbidden is a first-person lo-fi horror-puzzle game that takes place in a cursed Library. It is and shall remain completely free, and features a variety of puzzles and no small amount of reading. Though the notes and books are not always imperative to gameplay, skipping them will detract from the experience. AN UNPLANNED STAY The Library of Ouroboros. You awaken here with no memory of how you've arrived - though faint recollections of searching, of the Library's name, stick in your mind like scraps of torn paper. The reek of dust, of old wood, and of something... more difficult to place hang in the air. Is that a distant ringing you hear, or merely your imagination? And why do you feel so strange? So hot? Like a pair of eyes - no, much more than a single pair - are watching your every movement, reading your every thought, like words on the yellowed pages of an ancient book... A Place, Forbidden was initially released as a demo on the 2020 Haunted PS1 Demo DIsc. CREDITS: Conor Walsh, Writing and Design Dennis Müller, Scripting and Design Gábor Papp, 3D Modeling and Materials Aidan Cushing, Scripting

SteamPulse editorial summary

A Place, Forbidden is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Partial Controller Support, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Casual, Free To Play, and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 7 September 2026 - 15:40:00 UTC, a tracked peak of 3, and 85% positive reviews.

Overview tags

HorrorLovecraftianAtmosphericSingleplayerPuzzleAdventureFirst-PersonDarkPsychological HorrorStylizedMinimalistSurrealTranshumanismCasualWalking Simulator

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