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Boyhood's End

WSS playground · 2024-09-05

Steam

AdventureEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 05, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Boyhood's End is an adventure horror game following Giovanni, the boy with the lowest human score in the universe, and Campenella, the delinquent genius, and their journey on the galactic railroad regarding the "human" and "inhuman".

77%
positive of 757 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.79
steam price (US)

The protagonist, Giovanni, has the lowest human score among the entire human race. Every day, he receives "special treatment" for everything including his meals and classes. On top of that, he gets bullied relentlessly by his classmates at the School, both in real life and online. But one day, everything and everyone in the school starts attacking Giovanni, trying to "remake" him and raise his human score by making him "more human". A senior student, the famously eccentric genius Campanella, reaches out to Giovanni, and they hop onto (and take over) a driverless train on the galactic railroad(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 49 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 55% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (363 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 16,862 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–34k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 757 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.79 at Steam (2024-12-06)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
32632620242026Week of 2024-09-01: 326 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
92.8%
earned "Begin Observation"
30.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing2 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-09-06 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)540%102

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

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeRetroLGBTQ+Top-DownAdventureEmotionalFuturisticStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.