Zero people are playing it right now, and it just hit #2 on Steam’s New Releases chart.

Don’t Turn Off the Light launched today at a discounted $5.94 (15% off its $6.99 list price), and the pitch is straightforward: five-player asymmetrical horror where one of your friends is a demon. Survivors scramble for weapon parts, lean on light as a lifeline, and try not to get possessed. Someone at the table is lying. You know the format.

The social deduction horror space is crowded — Phasmophobia has been eating this lane for years, and every week brings another contender promising to be your new group-chat obsession. What Don’t Turn Off the Light has going for it is the price tag. At under six bucks, the bar for “worth it on a Friday night with four friends” is low enough to clear.

The early returns are promising, if microscopic. One user review, 100% positive, 3 hours played: “The game is really awesome — it’s super fun with friends, especially when you don’t know which one of them is the ghost 😂. I definitely recommend it; for this price, it’s absolutely worth it.”

The developer track record is worth noting. Halvrox L.L.C. has shipped 24 games over roughly 12 years, accumulating 156,000 total Steam reviews with an 87% positive rating, according to Niklas Notes. That’s not a hobbyist tossing a weekend project onto the storefront. That’s a studio that knows how to ship and retain players — their catalog averages 12 hours of playtime.

But 0 concurrent players at launch is a cold number, even for a brand-new release in need of a critical mass of groups. Asymmetrical multiplayer lives or dies by its lobbies. If nobody’s queueing, nobody’s buying, and the chart position evaporates fast.

The question isn’t whether the game is good — one review can’t answer that. The question is whether enough squads take the six-dollar bet this weekend to seed the player base before the launch discount expires.

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