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Beneath the Cardboard: Be Happy cover art

Beneath the Cardboard: Be Happy

Lunsemo Studio · 2024-05-30

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 30, 2024 (Linux), May 30, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Welcome to a reimagining of Beneath the Cardboard, a fairytale-themed tale of things not so fairytale-like... Survive countless cold nights in Snow Town, a place where no one will look at you twice.

Beneath the Cardboard: Be Happy is an Adventure, Indie, Simulation, and Early Access game released in 2024, priced at $4.99, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (81% of 94 reviews).

81%
positive of 94 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 27 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 68% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 94 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2024-05-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 4 of 5 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020242026Week of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$1.992024-05-302026-07-242024-05-30 — best price $1.992024-08-17 — best price $3.992024-11-27 — best price $3.192024-12-04 — best price $3.992024-12-19 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $3.992025-05-01 — best price $3.392025-05-05 — best price $3.992025-10-01 — best price $3.392025-10-06 — best price $3.992025-12-18 — best price $3.192026-01-05 — best price $3.992026-07-24 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Russian, German, Ukrainian

Player tags

3DDarkSnowHorrorSandboxSurrealSurvivalDystopian Open WorldSimulation

Census log

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

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