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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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“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“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“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 playedAchievement 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.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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
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
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
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
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.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Simulation · Casual · Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Singleplayer · Atmospheric · Cute · Emotional · Relaxing · Wholesome · Story Rich · 3D (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Playable without Timed Input · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian |
| Achievements | 19 |
| Official site | https://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