The Bottom of the Well on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

The Bottom of the Well is a free to play, visual novel and choose your own adventure game developed and published by Red Nettle Studio.
Released on March 03rd 2016 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 574 reviews of which 487 were positive and 87 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is free to play on Steam.


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  • OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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Feb. 2017
Pros: - Many ways to die - Atmospheric - Simple - Customizable character sheet - Free - Achievements Cons - Finishing can be quite tedious - What items are good/bad not clear Personal Rating: 3.5/5
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Jan. 2017
It's free, easy (?) to play and oddly compelling. There's no flashy graphics, no complicated key combinations, the action is delivered as a narrative, only you decide from a list of options what our heroine (Alice) does next. Unfortunatly the choices I've made so far have resulted in her death, some more gruesome than others, but....It's free, did I mention that? Get it, try it, you have nothing to lose, except Alice's life.
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Jan. 2017
The Bottom of the Well, despite being short, turned out to be a surprisingly engaging and challenging little VN. For a free game, this is absolutely worth your while.
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The Bottom of the Well
8.0
487
87
Online players
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Developer
Red Nettle Studio
Publisher
Red Nettle Studio
Release 03 Mar 2016
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