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Asbury Pines

90% positive of 566 Steam reviews

Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam

Made by Chaystar Unlimited LLC.

About the game

A grisly mystery in a small town unfolds across centuries through the stories of its residents. Orchestrate their work, grow resources, upgrade skills, and create automated production loops between past and future eras. All to uncover a sprawling secret embedded in the flow of time.

Tagged by players

Colony Sim
Thriller
Idler
Time Management
Nature
Immersive Sim
Interactive Fiction
Resource Management
Management
Mystery
Visual Novel
Dark

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Very Positive

What players say

Recommended
Easily in my top 10. This is an incremental game behind a story game. The incremental game is serviceable and enjoyable enough. The story is wonderful, intriguing, and absolutely supplants the incremental game. I spent two days actively managing the game, which isn't necessary, in order to keep reading the story. I love Smeed and this game would be one of my favorites even without Smeed. Thank you Smeed. Seriously,…
53 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Recommended
If you want a mysterious yet fulfilling story while you slowly connect the dots between characters and their lives, this is honestly a must-try. Minor UI issues aside while getting accustomed to where things are, this game sticks with you more than most will.
27 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Asbury Pines is an interesting experiment in non-linear storytelling with a sorta-kinda idle game-inspired gameplay loop... That is completely let down by the horrible handling of resolution of its central murder mystery. In the sense that it's not actually central, much as the game's narrative will, towards the end, try to convince you that it is and in the sense that the final plot twist is bad, bordering on…
8.2 h played when written. 12 found it helpful.
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