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Dandy: Or a Brief Glimpse Into the Life of the Candy Alchemist cover art

Dandy: Or a Brief Glimpse Into the Life of the Candy Alchemist

wefiends, Inc. · 2015-08-04

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Aug 04, 2015 (Mac), Aug 04, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Deceptively whimsical, Dandy is a perma-death side-scrolling shoot 'em up with stacking power-ups. Different on every playthrough, with reactive enemies that force you to use strategy.

75%
positive of 57 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 300% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 54% of 22,195 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 57 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620152026Week of 2015-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsStatsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2015-08-04 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IndieActionDifficultRogue-litePerma DeathShoot 'Em Up

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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