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Carnival

Beyond Booleans · 2025-08-25

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 25, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Carnival is an atmospheric folk horror point-&-click featuring low-resolution pixel art graphics, locations drawn from Venice itself, and developing relationships with NPCs, allowing the player to influence events in the game and achieve multiple different endings.

100%
positive of 76 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
$8.39
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 67% of 13,130 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 76 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$8.39-30%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.39 at Steam (2026-05-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520252026Week of 2025-08-25: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-24: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$8.392025-08-252026-09-022025-08-25 — best price $10.192025-09-08 — best price $11.992025-09-29 — best price $10.192025-10-06 — best price $11.992025-10-27 — best price $10.192025-11-03 — best price $11.992025-12-08 — best price $10.192025-12-13 — best price $11.992025-12-18 — best price $10.192026-01-05 — best price $11.992026-01-31 — best price $8.992026-02-14 — best price $11.992026-03-19 — best price $8.992026-03-26 — best price $11.992026-04-06 — best price $8.992026-04-13 — best price $11.992026-05-18 — best price $8.392026-06-01 — best price $11.992026-06-25 — best price $8.392026-07-09 — best price $11.992026-07-20 — best price $8.392026-08-03 — best price $11.992026-09-02 — best price $8.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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