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The August Before

The August Before

The August Before is a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on. Clean up and don’t forget your old belongings on your way to the new life!

Released Nov 17, 2025 Developer Silly Little Games Publisher Catoptric Games Platforms Windows SimulationCasualPuzzleFemale ProtagonistSingleplayer
View on Steam ↗ $11.99 (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

90.3%positive371 reviews
Recommended · 18 found this helpful

“I really wish steam had a neutral review button. Overall, the game is cute. It's a narrative puzzle game about packing up your belongings before moving to a new stage of life. You're cleaning rooms, organizing boxes, and deciding what to keep as memories. I really like the…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“This game is fine. It combines the packing type games with a cleaning type game. It is fun to organize things and solve the little puzzles. However it doesn't feel good to play-the things to pick up feel finicky, I glitched a puzzle one time and had to restart the whole room,…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Moving on isn't about erasing your history, it's about honoring where you've been while choosing to make space for where you're going next. It's a really good game that has a feeling that is at once heavy and very light. LOVED IT.”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-25.

19achievements
65.7%median completion
34.5%rarest: Vinyl Vertigo
93.0% of players 84.4% of players 82.8% of players 74.0% of players 74.0% of players 73.3% of players 71.7% of players 71.0% of players 68.4% of players 65.7% of players 65.1% of players 61.3% of players 57.6% of players 56.2% of players 52.4% of players 40.8% of players 40.0% of players 39.8% of players 34.5% of players 93.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
93.0%Better with music — Turn on music
84.4%All of them — Collect all the photos.
82.8%Bye, sweet friend — Find the place for the Teddy Bear.
Rarest badges of honor
34.5%Vinyl Vertigo — Listen to all the vinyls.
39.8%Did All You Could — Clean 100% of Ivy's room.
40.0%Clear Your Mind — Clean 100% of Beth's room.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Mar 04, 2026
Participation of The August Before in March Sales ★

We're excited to announce that The August Before will be featured in multiple festivals and sales events on Steam this March! 🌸 One of them is the Women's Day Sale , a celebration of great games creat

Jan 30, 2026
Soundtrack & Community Items Now Available! ★

Happy New Year, everyone! We're excited to announce that the official soundtrack is now available on Steam ! 🎶 Additionally, you can now earn up to three trading cards just by playing the game. New pr

Nov 19, 2025
Bug-fixes: The August Before

WE HAVE ARRIVED TO THE SECOND PATCH first of all: YOU ARE MAGNIFICENT. thank you for playing our game. thank you for your bug reports please keep em coming. Here are a couple of important fixes that a

Nov 17, 2025
First Day Patch: The August Before

ITS FIRST DAY PATCH TIME First of all: YOU ARE WONDERFUL. Thank you so much for playing our game. it warms our lonely indie hearts. NOW TO THE NEWS. Here are a couple of important fixes that are avail

Nov 17, 2025
The August before is OUT NOW!!! ★

Can't believe I'm saying this, but... The August Before is officially out! It's time to brush the dust off the past and pack your entire life into a small suitcase. And you can do it right here: We ho

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresCasual, Indie, Simulation
Player tagsSimulation · Casual · Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Singleplayer · Atmospheric · Cute · Emotional · Relaxing · Wholesome · Story Rich · 3D (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Playable without Timed Input · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian
Achievements19
Official sitehttps://the-august-before.tilda.ws
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10+ Processor: AMD ATHLON X4 740 | Intel Core i3-3250T Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Storage: 1 GB available space