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THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
The well has gone dry. It's up to you to find out why. Traverse through abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Power dying machinery to bring light into darkness. Dig into broken earth and crawl your way out. Down here you’re not exploring... you're trespassing.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“this game is absolute CINEMA. scary and fun”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY is a game of contrasts. First and foremost it is a HORRIFYING game - but it has a spice of WHIMSY, and it does a good job fusing those two elements together in a way (I believe) few horror games do. It will, simply put, drop you down a well; you will only…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Absolutely not for me but I can see how this game is absolute greatness if you are comfy with the visuals. I admit I almost pissed myself when ♥♥♥♥ went down the first time LMAO. This definitely puts you under a lot of stress, too much for me, but maybe you will love it. Still…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 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 2026-10-16.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
RATSHAKER X THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
Something has happened to the spoon. We have teamed up with Sunscorched Studios , developers of RATSHAKER , and through a series of events that we are not going to explain, their rat has been: TRANSMO
RATSPOON
-Added Rat Spoon -Added custom spoons You can unlock one by beating the game, and the other by beating the game without dying once.
Sheet Music UI & Load Bug Fixes
-Added sheet music counter at the top right of your inventory! -Fixed save/load bug involving items picked up
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Action, Adventure |
| Player tags | Adventure · Psychological Horror · Horror · Stylized · Story Rich · Retro · Gore · Atmospheric · Action · Stealth · Dark · Walking Simulator (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Custom Volume Controls · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · Stereo Sound · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Japanese * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Spanish - Latin America * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 8 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD FX-4300 or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 750 / AMD Radeon R7 260 or equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space