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How to Say Goodbye
How to Say Goodbye is a beautiful narrative puzzle game inspired by picture books. Reorganize the environment and solve puzzles to help a group of ghosts on their quest to finally move on.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“Before playing this game, I thought it would be a simple puzzle game, but I was surprised by how much I actually had to stop and think about some of the puzzles. It is a short but interesting game where you play as a ghost exploring the afterlife and solving grid-based puzzles.…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“It's a new type of puzzle I try, and it's very refershing to solve every each level. It's not too complicated if you're worried about it being too difficult. The story of each characters are very well made too (even though there are still some confusion of the relation between…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“A joyfully illustrated exploration of processing death, grief, and loss. It reads like a children's book yet offers a surprisingly sugarless outlook of radical acceptance. It was a visually, aurally, and emotionally delicious experience. Perhaps I should be reading more…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2022-11 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Puzzle · Emotional · Design & Illustration · 2D · Cute · Isometric · Relaxing · Text-Based · Narration · Casual · Colorful · Atmospheric (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 7 |
| Official site | http://florian.games/theotherside/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ Processor: SSE2 instruction set support Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DX10 (shader model 4.0) DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 1000 MB available space