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I'm on Observation Duty 5
As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“I think the title should be renamed to "Gas-lighting Yourself: The Game" I have never been more paranoid about something as small as a pencil moving .1 degree in my life! 10/10”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“This game series has no joke changed me in real life, i used to be pretty unobservant and have a bad short term memory for small details. But when i saw someone play this game on youtube, i thought the concept of a spot the difference horror game that is also random to be very…”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“I never knew how fun it could be to play Spot the Difference with someone holding a gun to my head! Thanks, Observation Duty!”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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I'm on Observation Duty on sale
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Sall update
Fixed the potential Unity vulnerability issue (see more info from Unity's website) for windows. Mac and Linux will be patched later. Observation Duty 1, 7 and 8 have been fixed for all platforms previ
I'm on Observation Duty 8 demo is OUT NOW!
I'm on Observation Duty 8 demo is out now. Please note that the game is still under development and some aspects present in the demo are subject to change. Happy anomaly hunting!
I'm on Observation Duty 7 is OUT NOW!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2462520/Im_on_Observation_Duty_7/
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Horror · Psychological Horror · Atmospheric · Puzzle · Mystery · Dark · Sokoban · Psychological · Hidden Object · Lovecraftian · Logic · Realistic (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 10 |
| Official site | https://notovia.net/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 10 Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4690 CPU @ 3.50GHz × 4 or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 970 or better Storage: 11 GB available space