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Mobile game · 2014

9 Clues 2: The Ward

9 Clues 2: The Ward is the second installment of Tap It Games' casual adventure series with hidden object puzzles, set in the 1950s America in which a young detective and her partner respond to a distress call from a psychiatric hospital on a secluded island.

Estimated daily players

~120.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 625

Estimated total players

~35,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 20K60K

See what's trending

Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Sep 17, 2014AndroidiOSWindows PhonePEGI MESRB 18GRAC 12USK 16

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play 9 Clues 2: The Ward, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Steam, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~12

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 625

Built from the live counts: Steam concurrents, Discord and Reddit members online, Twitch viewers.

Estimated total players

~35,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 20K60K

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Estimated daily players over time

from live counts

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for 9 Clues 2: The Ward per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~35,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 10, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed 9 Clues 2: The Ward where it is sold.

Steam players in game

2

Reviews
992

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Only the games with a PC port appear here, but where Steam does report it is a real concurrent-player count rather than a proxy for one.

Community signals

How many people gather around 9 Clues 2: The Ward outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Twitch viewers

0

Live channels
0

People watching this game on Twitch right now, summed across every live channel in its category.

Not tracked for 9 Clues 2: The Ward: Google Play, App Store, Discord, Reddit, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

Storyline

A young detective and her partner arrive on a lonely, rain-soaked island that houses an insane asylum. The island is separated from the rest of society by freezing waters and constant, brutal storms. Upon their arrival, the detectives witness one of the hospital’s therapists falling out of the window to his death. Shortly after starting their investigation, they learn that much darker things are going on at Mnemosyne Asylum. No one is willing to speak of the devastating fire, which engulfed the hospital four years ago, or the victims who died. The fact that the staff does everything they can in order to obscure the asylum’s story, makes everything even more suspicious. Each clue uncovered only raises new questions. Who killed Doctor Crow? What caused one of the asylum’s male staff to lose his mind? Who is Zed Rascov? What connects the doctor’s death to the name of the little girl, Ginger, carved into the wood-paneled wall of his office?

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play 9 Clues 2: The Ward?

We estimate that about 35,000 people have played 9 Clues 2: The Ward — plausibly between 20K and 60K. Around 12 of them play on a given day, in a range of 6 and 25. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Steam and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is 9 Clues 2: The Ward still active?

Yes. 9 Clues 2: The Ward is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the 9 Clues 2: The Ward player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 9, 2026.

When was 9 Clues 2: The Ward released?

9 Clues 2: The Ward was released on September 17, 2014 for Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

What platforms is 9 Clues 2: The Ward available on?

9 Clues 2: The Ward is available on Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

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