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Keyword: A Spider's Thread
Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-15.
“Good short puzzle game. Took me around 3 hours. Two hours if I didn't step away from my computer, and potentially under that if you never get stumped. Basically the premise is you use clues from the internet and your vantage point over the city to spy on and "hack" people, but…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedLatest 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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Greetings, Detectives! 🌆 We're overjoyed to announce that the sequel to Keyword: A Spider's Thread , titled Keyword 2: Nightfall , is officially in the works! Keyword 2: Nightfall Steam Page: https://
Patch Note 1.02
Finally! Chinese voiceovers are in. Also fixed a bunch of bugs :P To celebrate the new content launch, we started a 10% discount for everyone, Enjoy! Added option to skip the prologue Repaired some mo
New Cover/Banner/Art/Character poster!
Broken window. Tangled internet cable. Cyberpunk neon-lit coat. A helpless girl. Who is she? Can you save her?
Game Development Championship Nomination
Detectives! We are finally able to tell all of you that we are nominated at the Game Development Championship in the category "Fan Favorite"! Now we need all of you to help us win and archive this cra
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Puzzle · Detective · Immersive Sim · Indie · Story Rich · 3D · Singleplayer · Logic · RPG · Hacking · Cyberpunk · Mystery (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Simplified Chinese * , French, German, Russian, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese * |
| Achievements | 8 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.cityfromnaught.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 8 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850m 2GB Gddr5. DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 10 GB available space Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card