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Detective Penguin

That Other Fish · 2025-04-15

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Auditory

Releases: Apr 16, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 16, 2025 (Linux), Apr 16, 2025 (Mac)

Detective Penguin is the first and only physics-and-penguin-based detective game on the market. Solve cases in your own way. Interrogate suspects, find clues, or use your flippers to punch your way to the answers.

88%
positive of 60 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$6.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 67% of 14,276 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.2k–2.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 60 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.37 at Steam (2026-01-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

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181820252026Week of 2025-04-15: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-04-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CuteNoirFunnyCasualComedyPhysicsCartoonyAdventureDetectiveConspiracy

Census log

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