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Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine cover art

Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine

Headup · 2023-06-22

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ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jun 22, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 22, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Jun 22, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Jun 22, 2023 (Xbox One), Jun 22, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Jun 22, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Help Dr. Fetus create the perfect Meat Boy clone in a unique new twist on the tile-matching puzzle genre. In classic Meat Boy fashion, an endless cavalcade of devious and deadly traps stand between you and victory in this hardcore puzzle game that will push your skills to the limit.

59%
positive of 393 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
3.86★
PlayStation Store rating (112 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)
Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine is a 2023 puzzle video game developed by Team Meat. A spinoff of Super Meat Boy and Super Meat Boy Forever, it was published by Thunderful and Headup Games for multiple systems in June 2023. The game was inspired by Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 105 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity up 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 25,582 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.9k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 393 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$0.99-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99-90%
GOG$1.19-88%
GamersGate$2.00-80%
GOG$9.99
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.79 at Fanatical (2025-10-13) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 137 of 176 observed days · $0.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
252520232026Week of 2023-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.742023-06-222026-10-092023-06-22 — best price $7.192023-08-10 — best price $7.992023-09-29 — best price $7.992023-11-16 — best price $7.082023-12-30 — best price $9.992024-01-30 — best price $3.992024-03-15 — best price $4.792024-04-23 — best price $5.992024-06-08 — best price $9.992024-07-15 — best price $1.882024-08-19 — best price $2.402024-09-19 — best price $1.992024-11-11 — best price $1.782024-12-11 — best price $2.492025-01-21 — best price $9.992025-03-08 — best price $9.992025-04-09 — best price $9.992025-05-16 — best price $9.992025-06-27 — best price $1.192025-08-11 — best price $1.602025-09-18 — best price $9.992025-11-03 — best price $0.792025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-01-30 — best price $9.992026-03-18 — best price $2.002026-04-17 — best price $2.002026-05-26 — best price $7.372026-06-25 — best price $1.192026-08-03 — best price $0.992026-08-21 — best price $1.192026-09-05 — best price $0.992026-09-20 — best price $0.992026-10-05 — best price $0.992026-10-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

37112026-07-11 — 20 pageviews2026-07-14 — 23 pageviews2026-07-17 — 28 pageviews2026-07-20 — 19 pageviews2026-07-23 — 26 pageviews2026-07-26 — 23 pageviews2026-07-29 — 18 pageviews2026-08-01 — 23 pageviews2026-08-04 — 18 pageviews2026-08-07 — 19 pageviews2026-08-10 — 22 pageviews2026-08-13 — 19 pageviews2026-08-16 — 19 pageviews2026-08-19 — 22 pageviews2026-08-22 — 24 pageviews2026-08-25 — 25 pageviews2026-08-28 — 18 pageviews2026-08-31 — 14 pageviews2026-09-03 — 15 pageviews2026-09-06 — 13 pageviews2026-09-09 — 24 pageviews2026-09-12 — 21 pageviews2026-09-15 — 17 pageviews2026-09-18 — 14 pageviews2026-09-21 — 20 pageviews2026-09-24 — 16 pageviews2026-09-27 — 18 pageviews2026-09-30 — 23 pageviews2026-10-03 — 15 pageviews2026-10-06 — 19 pageviews2026-10-08 — 28 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
44.5%
earned "Baby Chain"
4.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6186%30
PS5 (PlayStation)33615%31
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)2614%30
PS4 (PlayStation)14419%31
Switch (Nintendo)240%0

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

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieActionArcadeCasualPuzzleCartoonyColorfulDifficult

Census log

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

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