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Transient: Extended Edition
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“I really liked the idea of the game, but the execution did not fully live up to that. It was a bit clunky and the story somewhat questionable. 6/10 Cosmic Horrors”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Good game. A lots to learn about transient-ing. Nice.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“I did not know I needed this type of genre until I found this game. Now I want more of it and there's nothing anywhere like it. Great game, good story, leaves me wanting more.”
— a player, Steam review · 5 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.
The Transient Extended Edition Is Here!
Hey everyone! We're happy to announce that alongside a console release, Transient: Extended Edition is now also available to PC players on Steam via today's FREE update. Presented in stunning 4K resol
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Hey everybody! It’s that time of year when sales come at you fast, so here’s another one! From now until October 25th, we’re a part of the Iceberg Interactive Publisher Sale. You can grab a ton of gre
Update .140: New face model for Carter!
Hello folks! We've been tinkering away on an all-new look for Carter. He didn't really feel like the augmented master hacker he is, so we decided to give him a little make-over. There are two other ch
Update 1.30: sprinting, skipping mini-games, and more!
Hello everyone! Thank you for the support you've shown Transient thus far, we're happy to hear that so many of you have enjoyed our adventure. We've also received workable feedback on some aspects of
Patch v.120 is now available for Transient!
Thank you all for your amazing feedback! We've listened and would like to share with you the first changes and bugfixes to Transient since its release earlier this week. Here is a summary of the issue
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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 | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Lovecraftian · Cyberpunk · Adventure · Psychological Horror · Story Rich · Puzzle · Dystopian · Atmospheric · Walking Simulator · Sci-fi · Conversation · Dark (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 27 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.transientgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64-bit Processor: 3.60GHz Intel Core i3-4160 Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480/570/670, ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 15 GB available space