The Missing Rune overview

Overview

The Missing Rune comes from Mr.Boloney and is published by Mr.Boloney. It arrived on Steam on Aug 4, 2026, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Adjustable Text Size, Camera Comfort, Custom Volume Controls, Mouse Only Option, Playable without Timed Input, and Stereo Sound. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Missing Rune's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 11 October 2026 - 11:35:54 UTC, with a tracked peak near 0. 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 2 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Missing Rune is available in 1 languages including:

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

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Missing Rune 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.

The Missing Rune overview details

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

Steam Store description

The Missing Rune is a first-person psychological horror puzzle game. You play a low-level researcher at the O.B.J. Foundation, stationed at a control panel outside a containment cell. Your job is to banish demonic entities using rune incantations — without ever looking directly at one. THE RULE Look directly at an entity and it tunnels in through your eyes. Look away and it slips in behind you. Hold it at the very edge of your vision, and keep it there. THE SHIFT Six shifts, six cycles each. Every cycle runs in two phases. MANIFESTATION. The shield opens and the entity appears. Hold your peripheral gaze for thirty seconds while it tries to anchor itself into reality. As it does, things happen in the cell, the lights change color, sounds come through the microphone, your vision corrupts, and eventually the entity starts speaking to you. Memorize all of it. The glass absorbs one mistake, after it breaks, the next one is fatal. QUANTUM. The entity vanishes and it's safe to look down. Open the Rune Operation Manual, work out which entity you're holding, and apply a modifier for everything you witnessed, in the order the manual gives them. Then enter your three-rune answer on the console. You have two minutes. Whatever you enter becomes the starting sequence for the next cycle, so a mistake follows you. Some rune combinations are fatal on input, and the manual buries that warning on the back page. ESCALATION Shift one is guided. After that the Foundation stops holding your hand. Entities strong enough to talk will tell you things about your handler. Perforations open in y…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Missing Rune is listed as a game with $7.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Adjustable Text Size, Camera Comfort, Custom Volume Controls, Mouse Only Option, Playable without Timed Input, and Stereo Sound, and is associated with Indie, Simulation, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 11 October 2026 - 11:35:54 UTC, a tracked peak of 0, and 100% positive reviews.

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