Silence
Point-and-click adventure about finding your sister between life and death
Daedalic Entertainment · Released Nov 15, 2016
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 82% of 1,933
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 81% of 11 in 30 days
- Players
- 1
- daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Last update on Steam
- 9 years ago
- Dec 9, 2016
Metacritic: 75/100 (critic reviews)
What is Silence?
A single-player point-and-click adventure set in Silence, a world between life and death. You explore locations and solve puzzles as three playable characters while Noah searches for his lost sister Renie after an air raid.
For you if...
- +you enjoy story-focused adventures with exploration and puzzles
- +you prefer straightforward puzzles in a fantasy setting
Not for you if...
- −you prefer fast action to point-and-click exploration
- −you avoid stories shaped by war and family peril
What players say
82% of 1,933 reviews are positive · 81% of 11 in the last 30 days
Players praise the scenery, music, and story. Common complaints include long, unskippable cutscenes, simple puzzles, and awkward controls. One player reports severe visual glitches on Linux.
How many players finish Silence?
22% of Steam players have unlocked «Mirror mirror on the wall...», the achievement for finishing the main story.
Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.
Screenshots and trailer
Silence system requirements
Minimum: GeForce GTX 280, 4 GB RAM, 20 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Silence?
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Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Win 7
- Processor
- 2 GHz Dual Core CPU
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 / ATI Radeon HD 5800 / Intel HD 5000
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 20 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Notes
- Mouse and Gamepad supported
Recommended
- OS
- Win 7, Win 8.1, Win 10
- Processor
- 2 GHz Dual Core CPU
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 / ATI Radeon HD 7900
- Memory
- 6 GB RAM
- Storage
- 20 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Notes
- Mouse and Gamepad supported
Does Silence have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Silence run on Steam Deck?
Verified Yes, Verified by Valve: it works on Steam Deck out of the box.
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Shows Steam Deck controller icons
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
- External controllers are not supported for the primary player
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 46
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Full audio: English, German, Simplified Chinese, Polish. Text only: French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Greek.
Does Silence use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Adventure
- Point & Click
- Story Rich
- Great Soundtrack
- Indie
- Puzzle
- Singleplayer
- Female Protagonist
- Exploration
- 2D
- Short
- Casual
- Retro
Recent updates
- Dec 9, 2016 · Spot and Bugs
2 DLC available.