Full game metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 772680 |
| Live current players | 0 |
| SteamPulse tracked peak | 1 |
| Live count (today's peak floor) | 0 |
| Price | Free to play |
| Free to play | Yes |
| Discount | 0% |
| Original price USD | — |
| Current price USD | Free |
| Release date | Mar 6, 2018 |
| Developer | Studio Oleomingus |
| Publisher | Studio Oleomingus |
| Owners estimated | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate minimum | 20,000 |
| SteamSpy owner estimate maximum | 50,000 |
| Review type | Mostly Positive |
| Positive review percent | 77% |
| Positive reviews | 133 |
| Negative reviews | 40 |
| Total reviews | 173 |
| Steam recommendations | Not available |
| Achievements | Not available |
| Average playtime forever | Not available |
| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | Yes |
| Linux support | Yes |
| Parent game | Not available |
| Store URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/772680/ |
Short description
a Museum of Dubious Splendors, is a storybook from the world of Somewhere. A quiet game about prosaic objects and spurious histories, it is an irreverent rumination on the nature of an archive and forms of recollection.
About this game
The Museum of Dubious Splendors is half a storybook and half an exploration game. It is a collection of folklore and oral tales, punctuated by peculiar rooms, that you wander through. These tales, have been recreated from a collection of stories by Mir UmarHassan, a Gujarati poet whose works have proven notoriously difficult to translate because of the mellifluous use of Urdu and Hindi in his compositions. The collection, entitled "in Dubious Splendor", was written (in Gujarati) in nineteen sixty two for the Malwa Chronicle, but the stories therein were mangled and edited without the author's permission prior to their publication in serialized form. This contested collection of stories, became momentarily infamous as the subject of the first court case to arbitrate authorial ownership in Independent India. Even today, despite countless restorative efforts by scholars, it cannot be said with with any certainty that the text that we used for this adaptation was the original as written by UmarHassan.
Supported languages
English