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Button City cover art

Button City

Subliminal · 2021-08-09

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Aug 10, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Aug 10, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 10, 2021 (Mac), Aug 10, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 10, 2021 (PlayStation 5)

Button City is a cozy narrative adventure game about a fox and his friends banding together to save their local arcade! Explore a diorama world, play exciting arcade games, complete quirky quests and meet cute animal friends.

92%
positive of 179 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
4.44★
PlayStation Store rating (27 ratings)
6h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 45% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (44 reviews).
  • · Top 31% of 29,019 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 179 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 0 of 5 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
434320212026Week of 2021-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$19.992026-09-122026-10-102026-09-12 — best price $19.992026-09-19 — best price $19.992026-09-26 — best price $19.992026-10-03 — best price $19.992026-10-10 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
67%
earned "Fluff Squad"
12%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish - Latin America

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-08-10 (Steam store data)

Player tags

3DCuteFunnyArcadeComedyColorfulRelaxingAdventureMinigamesNarrative

Census log

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

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