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A Boy and His Blob

Abstraction Games · Ziggurat · 2016-01-19

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Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 04, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 06, 2009 (Wii), Jan 19, 2016 (Linux), Jun 28, 2016 (PlayStation 3), Jan 19, 2016 (Mac), Jan 19, 2016 (PlayStation 4)

When Blobolonia is threatened by an evil Emperor, the blob comes to Earth looking for help. Instead, he finds a young boy. Help the blob dethrone the evil Emperor that's terrorizing Blobolonia and establish a friendship with the blob that will last a lifetime.

0
playing now
69%
positive of 566 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
53/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

A Boy and His Blob is a puzzle-platform game developed by WayForward and published by Majesco. It is a re-imagining of the 1989 video game, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, which was originally developed by Imagineering for the NES. The game was released for the Wii in North America on October 13 and in Europe on November 6, 2009. A high-definition port of the game developed by Abstraction Games was released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on January 20, 2016. A PlayStation 3 version was made available on June 28 of the same year as a cross-purchase with the PS4 and Vita versions. Mobile ports for iOS and Android were later released worldwide on November 17 and September 26, 2017, respectively. A Nintendo Switch version was released on November 4, 2021, by WayForward and Ziggurat Interactive.

Health check

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  • · Top 38% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–34k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 566 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.49-65%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.49-65%
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2018-10-30) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 54 of 93 observed days · $2.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.492016-01-192026-08-302016-01-19 — best price $8.492016-04-29 — best price $9.992016-08-24 — best price $2.492016-11-22 — best price $4.992017-03-20 — best price $9.992017-09-21 — best price $9.992018-04-10 — best price $9.992018-09-24 — best price $2.192019-08-29 — best price $3.492020-01-22 — best price $1.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-04-30 — best price $6.692021-10-04 — best price $6.692021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-02-21 — best price $9.992022-08-01 — best price $9.992022-11-23 — best price $6.692023-02-21 — best price $9.992023-05-05 — best price $6.492023-08-18 — best price $6.492023-11-29 — best price $9.992024-02-05 — best price $9.992024-03-25 — best price $8.252024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-10-08 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $4.492025-06-08 — best price $2.942025-07-21 — best price $2.942025-08-18 — best price $3.492025-09-25 — best price $3.492025-10-28 — best price $3.492025-12-03 — best price $9.992026-01-23 — best price $3.492026-04-02 — best price $9.992026-06-01 — best price $9.992026-07-24 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $3.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

101382026-05-31 — 54 pageviews2026-06-03 — 75 pageviews2026-06-06 — 56 pageviews2026-06-09 — 43 pageviews2026-06-12 — 55 pageviews2026-06-15 — 59 pageviews2026-06-18 — 58 pageviews2026-06-21 — 58 pageviews2026-06-24 — 64 pageviews2026-06-27 — 76 pageviews2026-06-30 — 51 pageviews2026-07-03 — 77 pageviews2026-07-06 — 74 pageviews2026-07-09 — 87 pageviews2026-07-12 — 83 pageviews2026-07-15 — 58 pageviews2026-07-18 — 78 pageviews2026-07-21 — 57 pageviews2026-07-24 — 55 pageviews2026-07-27 — 79 pageviews2026-07-30 — 59 pageviews2026-08-02 — 54 pageviews2026-08-05 — 49 pageviews2026-08-08 — 59 pageviews2026-08-11 — 58 pageviews2026-08-14 — 56 pageviews2026-08-17 — 75 pageviews2026-08-20 — 73 pageviews2026-08-23 — 101 pageviews2026-08-26 — 73 pageviews2026-08-28 — 60 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4, PS Vita (PlayStation)2,51024%21
Steam (Steam)1,70716%21
Xbox One (Xbox)1,00319%21
Switch (Nintendo)190%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCutePuzzleRemakeCartoonyAdventurePlatformerSingleplayerFamily FriendlyPuzzle-Platformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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