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Befriended Curse

Yellow Basement Games · 2024-07-30

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 30, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Witches, curses, and fairy tales meet horror in this classic walking sim with an eerie atmosphere and well-paced jumpscares.

93%
positive of 301 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
38,661
twitch viewers (latest)
38661.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 52 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 13,110 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.0k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 301 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2025-09-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
484820242026Week of 2024-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$2.492024-07-302026-08-222024-07-30 — best price $4.492024-08-06 — best price $4.992024-09-08 — best price $3.992024-09-16 — best price $4.992024-10-28 — best price $3.742024-11-04 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $3.742024-12-04 — best price $4.992024-12-07 — best price $3.742024-12-15 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $3.492025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-01-23 — best price $3.492025-02-02 — best price $4.992025-03-05 — best price $2.992025-03-17 — best price $4.992025-04-18 — best price $3.342025-04-29 — best price $4.992025-05-30 — best price $2.992025-06-13 — best price $4.992025-07-17 — best price $2.992025-07-28 — best price $4.992025-09-01 — best price $2.492025-09-08 — best price $4.992025-10-27 — best price $2.492025-11-03 — best price $4.992025-12-11 — best price $2.492025-12-22 — best price $4.992026-02-02 — best price $2.492026-02-16 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-05-10 — best price $2.492026-05-24 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-08 — best price $2.492026-08-22 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
90.2%
earned "Cats are cats..."
86%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)12244%7

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

Player tags

3DDarkHorrorMysteryThrillerRealisticJump ScareSimulationAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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