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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 573 reviews of which 486 were positive and 87 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Bottom of the Well into these genres:

Free to Play Visual Novel Choose Your Own Adventure RPG Post-apocalyptic Interactive Fiction Horror Female Protagonist Choices Matter

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Windows
  • 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 is free to play on Steam.

The Bottom of the Well is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.

The Bottom of the Well received 486 positive votes out of a total of 573 achieving a rating of 7.97.
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The Bottom of the Well was developed and published by Red Nettle Studio.

The Bottom of the Well is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Bottom of the Well is not playable on MacOS.

The Bottom of the Well is not playable on Linux.

The Bottom of the Well is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for The Bottom of the Well. Explore additional content available for The Bottom of the Well on Steam.

The Bottom of the Well does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Bottom of the Well does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Bottom of the Well does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

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The Bottom of the Well
Free to play
8.0
486
87
Game modes
Online players
2
Developer
Red Nettle Studio
Publisher
Red Nettle Studio
Release 03 Mar 2016
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