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A Book of Beasts and Buddies

Squiddershins · 2018-11-14

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 06, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A Book of Beasts and Buddies is an interactive beastiary of curious creatures.

A Book of Beasts and Buddies is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, and RPG game released in 2018, free-to-play, with an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 410 reviews).

0
playing now
95%
positive of 410 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (59 reviews).
  • · Top 21% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
595920182026Week of 2018-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
40Nov 2018Dec 2020Nov 2018 — avg 4 · peak 15Dec 2018 — avg 3 · peak 10Jan 2019 — avg 2 · peak 11Feb 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 17Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 8Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2020 — avg 0 · peak 1Feb 2020 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Apr 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Aug 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Dec 2020

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerCamera ComfortColor AlternativesMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGCuteFunnyIndieCasualAdventureSimulationFree to PlayPoint & Click

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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