The Game Census
Fruit Salad cover art

Fruit Salad

The Dead Pixel Society, LLC · 2023-11-18

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 25, 2023 (Linux), Oct 25, 2023 (Mac), Oct 25, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Drop adorable fruit to merge them and create even larger fruit in this cozy physics puzzle game!

4
playing now
96%
positive of 317 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 21 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (131 reviews).
  • · Top 37% of 9,572 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.3k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 317 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2024-04-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 11 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12712720232026Week of 2023-11-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-08-14 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 6 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.992023-11-192026-07-202023-11-19 — best price $1.492023-12-21 — best price $1.592024-02-05 — best price $1.592024-03-14 — best price $1.492024-04-08 — best price $0.992024-05-20 — best price $1.492024-06-27 — best price $1.392024-07-15 — best price $1.492024-08-26 — best price $1.492024-10-07 — best price $1.492024-11-27 — best price $1.192024-12-19 — best price $1.392025-03-13 — best price $1.492025-04-26 — best price $1.492025-06-02 — best price $1.492025-06-27 — best price $0.992025-07-17 — best price $1.992025-08-23 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-12-01 — best price $1.592025-12-18 — best price $1.292026-01-12 — best price $1.592026-02-23 — best price $1.592026-03-19 — best price $1.292026-04-06 — best price $1.592026-05-18 — best price $1.592026-06-25 — best price $1.392026-07-13 — best price $1.592026-07-20 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
94.2%
earned "Unchained (5)"
38.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam Leaderboards

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4052%30

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

Player tags

2DCuteIndieArcadeCasualPuzzleMatch 3PhysicsColorfulController

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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