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Ward 9

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Store data

UK price
£17.75
US price
$17.99
Positive reviews
—
Total reviews
0
Release date
23 September 2026
Concurrent players0Most recent successful sample
Today's peak019/144 samples
Tracked peak1Highest retained daily peak
Steam rating—0 reviews
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Game information

Details supplied by the Steam store
App ID
4926870
App type
Game
Supported systems
Windows
Genres
Adventure, Indie
Release date
23 September 2026
Last player update
27 Oct · 03:20 UTC
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System requirements

Supplied by the developer on Steam

Windows

Minimum
Requirement
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS
Windows 10 64-bit
Processor
Dual-core Intel or AMD, 2.4 GHz or better
Memory
4 GB RAM
Graphics
Intel HD Graphics 620 / AMD Radeon Vega 3 or better
DirectX
Version 11
Storage
3 GB available space
Recommended
Requirement
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS
Windows 11 64-bit
Processor
Quad-core Intel or AMD, 3.0 GHz or better
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
NVIDIA GTX 1050 / AMD RX 560 or better
DirectX
Version 11
Storage
3 GB available space

Launch window

Released 23 September 2026 · Tracking from 23 September 2026

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First observed dayComplete
Player peak
0
Steam reviews
0Rating not recorded
Twitch peak
Not recorded
Price observed
£15.97
Top Sellers
No appearanceNo ranked days

1 player-data day recorded in this window.

First observed weekComplete
Player peak
1
Steam reviews
0Rating not recorded
Twitch peak
Not recorded
Price observed
£15.97
Top Sellers
No appearanceNo ranked days

7 player-data days recorded in this window.

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Player history

Concurrent players

Peak 0Average 0Latest 0
0011126 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC27 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC

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Monthly players breakdown

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MonthPeakGain% gainAverageAvg % gain
Last 30 days1+1—0—
October 20260-1-100.0%0-100.0%
September 20261——0—
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About this game

Description

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They are not here to be cured. They are here because nobody has ever made them lose.

Ward 9 is an interface-driven sci-fi psychological horror game about entering minds built to resist you. Five patients. Five impossible records. Every one of them knows how to redirect a question, weaponize sympathy, and make the observer doubt what they saw.

You are the Aide. The Source gives you seven days to get behind their defenses.

Read every response. Choose when to question, reflect, confront, or retreat. Build rapport without surrendering control. Protect your limited capacity. Repair ruptures before a patient shuts you out. Every successful exchange opens another protected layer of the record, but every layer gives the patient more information about you.

The patient is not the only person being evaluated.

Behind each file is a fixed, authored horror story involving impossible knowledge, missing families, engineered disasters, erased identities, synthetic grief, and institutional experiments that should never have survived review. The truth does not arrive as exposition. You earn it through sustained psychological pressure, contradictions, case evidence, and breakthroughs that can take hours to reach.

At the end of the cycle, the Source asks for what you uncovered. Disclose it. Withhold it. Destroy it. Your decisions determine what the institution learns, what the patients remember, and whether you return as the same Aide.

KEY FEATURES

Enter five fully authored patient records, each with a distinct personality, crime, defense pattern, and protected truth.

Conduct tense psychological confrontations through questioning, reflection, challenge, observation, and strategic withdrawal.

Manage rapport, treatment capacity, rupture, repair, and clinical insight across a persistent seven-day cycle.

Use Source Assist to read behavioral signals without letting the institution make every decision for you.

Unlock case files, contradictions, breakthroughs, achievements, and permanent evidence through deliberate play.

Face morally unstable end-of-cycle decisions that determine what the Source is allowed to keep.

Experience a restrained sci-fi horror world built from surveillance, impossible testimony, institutional control, and the fear that the person across from you understands you first.

Get inside the minds of the people who never let anyone win. Then find your way back out.

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