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Critter Crunch cover art

Critter Crunch

Capybara Games · 2012-09-11

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 11, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 11, 2012 (Mac), Nov 19, 2009 (PlayStation 3), Jul 10, 2008 (iOS), 2007 (Legacy Mobile Device)

Using Critter Crunch's 'Food Chain' mechanic, players will eat their way through a smorgasbord of levels and gorge on a feast of modes, including Co-op and Versus multiplayer.

94%
positive of 367 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
77/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
4.3h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)
Critter Crunch is a puzzle game in the vein of Magical Drop by Capybara Games for mobile phone platforms BREW and J2ME in 2007. It was later ported to iOS, PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Network, Windows, and Mac OS X.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 41% of 14,144 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–29k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 367 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.97 at Steam (2020-12-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120152026Week of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$0.972015-01-012026-08-102015-01-01 — best price $2.372015-06-22 — best price $6.992015-11-25 — best price $1.042016-01-04 — best price $6.992016-06-23 — best price $1.042016-11-29 — best price $6.992017-06-23 — best price $1.392017-11-28 — best price $6.992018-06-22 — best price $2.092018-11-27 — best price $6.992019-02-05 — best price $2.092019-07-09 — best price $6.992019-12-23 — best price $1.742020-01-27 — best price $6.992020-10-29 — best price $1.392020-12-01 — best price $6.992021-02-11 — best price $0.972021-06-03 — best price $6.992021-10-28 — best price $1.742021-12-01 — best price $6.992022-06-23 — best price $1.392022-09-14 — best price $6.992022-12-22 — best price $3.142023-03-23 — best price $6.992023-06-29 — best price $0.972023-08-07 — best price $6.992023-12-21 — best price $2.792024-02-19 — best price $6.992024-06-27 — best price $1.742024-12-04 — best price $6.992025-02-10 — best price $1.742025-03-20 — best price $6.992025-09-29 — best price $1.742025-11-18 — best price $6.992026-01-26 — best price $1.392026-03-26 — best price $6.992026-06-25 — best price $2.792026-08-10 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

10612026-06-14 — 8 pageviews2026-06-17 — 9 pageviews2026-06-20 — 7 pageviews2026-06-23 — 7 pageviews2026-06-26 — 4 pageviews2026-06-29 — 7 pageviews2026-07-02 — 11 pageviews2026-07-05 — 14 pageviews2026-07-08 — 7 pageviews2026-07-11 — 13 pageviews2026-07-14 — 8 pageviews2026-07-17 — 9 pageviews2026-07-20 — 11 pageviews2026-07-23 — 9 pageviews2026-07-26 — 9 pageviews2026-07-29 — 6 pageviews2026-08-01 — 8 pageviews2026-08-04 — 6 pageviews2026-08-07 — 7 pageviews2026-08-10 — 7 pageviews2026-08-13 — 8 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-19 — 9 pageviews2026-08-22 — 8 pageviews2026-08-25 — 7 pageviews2026-08-28 — 7 pageviews2026-08-31 — 11 pageviews2026-09-03 — 8 pageviews2026-09-06 — 6 pageviews2026-09-09 — 10 pageviews2026-09-11 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
77.6%
earned "Puzzle Me This!"
9.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam Cloud

4 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS3 (PlayStation)22,14411%14
Steam (Steam)2,3373%14

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

Player tags

2DCuteIndieActionCasualNaturePuzzleMatch 3CartoonyLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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