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Cranium Conundrum cover art

Cranium Conundrum

Falling Star Games · Sometimes You · 2016-09-23

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Sep 23, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cranium Conundrum is a physics-based puzzle platformer taking place in the dream worlds that you create!

Cranium Conundrum is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, and Early Access game released in 2016 for $0.71, with a Mixed review sentiment (41% of 87 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
41%
positive of 87 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.71
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 28,821 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.2k–5.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 87 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.20 at GreenManGaming (2019-04-02) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220162026Week of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.202016-09-242026-08-242016-09-24 — best price $5.392017-02-06 — best price $4.792017-04-12 — best price $3.592017-09-18 — best price $4.192017-12-21 — best price $2.992018-04-09 — best price $4.012018-06-21 — best price $3.892018-10-08 — best price $5.992019-01-03 — best price $5.992019-04-22 — best price $3.592019-08-26 — best price $2.992019-12-03 — best price $5.992020-01-27 — best price $5.992020-05-11 — best price $1.192020-08-03 — best price $5.992020-11-25 — best price $2.392021-02-11 — best price $2.392021-06-07 — best price $1.792021-09-13 — best price $0.592021-11-24 — best price $1.192022-01-27 — best price $1.792022-07-07 — best price $5.992022-09-26 — best price $5.992022-12-12 — best price $5.992023-03-23 — best price $5.992023-06-26 — best price $5.992023-09-25 — best price $5.992023-12-18 — best price $5.992024-03-11 — best price $5.992024-06-03 — best price $5.992024-09-02 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $5.992025-02-24 — best price $5.992025-05-19 — best price $5.992025-09-01 — best price $5.992026-01-12 — best price $5.992026-04-06 — best price $5.992026-07-20 — best price $5.992026-08-24 — best price $0.71
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
3.5%
earned "Speed Demon"
3.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopPartial Controller Support

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualAdventureEarly Access

Census log

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

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