Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure overview

Overview

Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure comes from Storycentric Worlds and is published by Unimatrix Productions. It arrived on Steam on Oct 24, 2016, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Captions available, 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

Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 01:18:53 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 82% positive across 17 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure is available in 1 languages including:

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

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure has sold up to 831 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $1,918. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure overview details

Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Relive the days of classic gaming with Shady Brook , a dark mystery text adventure inspired by the television series Twin Peaks in which players take on the role of author Jake Torrent in his search of a small town's twisted secrets. Gameplay Shady Brook combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks with a graphic user interface that emulates the look of early 1990s text adventures. It features beautiful artwork and cinematic music. In place of a text parser is a context-specific multiple choice menu. A compass allows you to travel from room to room, and separate inventory, map, journal, and character screens are available at the push of a button. Shady Brook plays like an interactive novel. You make a series of choices that determine what happens next in the story. But unlike traditional gamebooks and choose-your-own adventures, Shady Brook also features more advanced adventure game mechanics, including locations to explore, items to collect and use, characters to meet and interact with, and puzzles to solve. Story Author Jake Torrent, alongside his blind father Wayne, moves to the small, peaceful country town of Shady Brook. At first, everything seems idyllic. His neighbor, Tim, is always willing to lend a hand, and the Ekan family invites him to dinner. But soon, Jake learns that his home's previous occupant committed suicide, and mysterious things begin to occur. When another resident also commits suicide, Jake starts to suspect foul play. Could this town take part in a conspiracy to cover up a murder? As Jake investigates, he gets m…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure is listed as a game with $2.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Captions available, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Casual, Indie, and RPG. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 01:18:53 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 82% positive reviews.

Overview tags

AdventureCasualIndieRPGNuditySexual ContentText-BasedInteractive FictionHorrorExplorationSingleplayerMysteryStory RichPoint & Click

Content descriptors

Shady Brook contains mature content, including strong language, disturbing imagery, sexual situations, and nudity. A censored mode can be activated at the start of a new game that will disable mature content, graphic visuals and text. This will not disrupt the story experience.

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Support and legal notes

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