Ishmael

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App ID	981310
App Type	Game
Developer	Jordan Magnuson
Publisher	Jordan Magnuson
Supported Systems	Windows
Last Changenumber	29425452
Last Record Update	6 June 2025 – 19:23:30 UTC ()
Release Date	10 December 2018 – 22:14:21 UTC ()

❓ 54.88%

83 reviews

In-Game

Ishmael is a short multimedia-enhanced hypertext story about perpetual cycles of displacement and violence as seen through the lens of a child. Takes about 15 minutes to read/play through.

Additional Information

This game is excluded from Steam Family Sharing because: Free Game

Developer

Jordan Magnuson

metacritic_name

Ishmael

ReleaseState

released

Publisher

Jordan Magnuson

IsFreeApp

Yes

Exclude from family sharing (exfgls)

3 (Free Game)

Store Release Date

7 April 2017 – 07:00:00 UTC ()

osarch

empty string

community_hub_visible

Yes

Social Media

https://x.com/JordanMagnuson

Primary Genre

Indie (23)

Store Genres

Adventure (25), Casual (4), Free to Play (37), Indie (23), RPG (3), Simulation (28)

Steam Release Date

10 December 2018 – 22:14:21 UTC ()

Original Release Date

7 April 2017 – 07:00:00 UTC () (1491548400)

Store Asset Modification Time

22 February 2021 – 16:21:37 UTC () (1614010897)

library_assets

library_capsule	en
library_hero	en
library_logo	en
logo_position ↴
pinned_position	BottomLeft
width_pct	50
height_pct	50

Is free on the store?

Yes

review_score

review_percentage

Detected Technologies (?)

NWJS SDK, NodeJS SDK

restricted_countries

Germany

Content Descriptors

General Mature Content (5)

First seen on SteamDB

10 November 2018 – 19:21:27 UTC (), in changelist #5367768

Content Descriptors (Including DLC)

General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

1 Languages	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	Yes	Yes	Yes

Assets

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clienticon

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clienttga

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icon

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logo

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logo_small

90fc05def866f002f3e1a7f69871d57931f92f71_thumb

small_capsule

english

capsule_231x87.jpg

header_image

english

header.jpg

library_assets_full

library_capsule ↴
image/english	library_600x900.jpg
image2x/english	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero ↴
image/english	library_hero.jpg
library_logo ↴
image/english	logo.png
logo_position/pinned_position	BottomLeft
logo_position/width_pct	50
logo_position/height_pct	50

Assets

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small_capsule	capsule_231x87.jpg
header	header.jpg
page_background	page_bg_generated_v6b.jpg
hero_capsule	hero_capsule.jpg
library_capsule	library_600x900.jpg
library_capsule_2x	library_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero	library_hero.jpg
community_icon	1a5e9de3e645393b883a953c18994bf608b4807b.jpg
page_background_path	app/981310
raw_page_background	page_bg_raw.jpg
timestamp	22 February 2021 – 16:23:20 UTC

Trailers

256735188 ↴
trailer_name	About Ishmael
trailer_category	0
trailer_480p/video/webm	256735188/movie480.webm
trailer_480p/video/mp4	256735188/movie480.mp4
trailer_max/video/webm	256735188/movie_max.webm
trailer_max/video/mp4	256735188/movie_max.mp4
microtrailer/video/webm	256735188/microtrailer.webm
microtrailer/video/mp4	256735188/microtrailer.mp4
screenshot_medium	256735188/movie.293x165.jpg
screenshot_full	256735188/movie_full.jpg
trailer_base_id	195389
all_ages	true
is_highlight	true
timestamp	1542092654

Depots

ID	Configuration	Size	DL.
981311	Windows Ishmael Content	230.15 MiB	95.02 MiB

Total size on disk is 230.15 MiB and total download size is 95.02 MiB.

Branches

Name	Description	Build ID	Time Updated
public		3296327	10 November 2018 – 23:23:09 UTC

Ishmael

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