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Garlic cover art

Garlic

Sylph · 2021-06-15

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jun 15, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 07, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 07, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Jul 07, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Jul 07, 2023 (Xbox One), Jul 07, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S)

You are Garlic, an onion-headed boy and you want to climb the Sacred Tower to meet the Cyber Goddess to seduce her...

89%
positive of 394 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$14.99
steam price (US)

You are Garlic, an onion-headed boy and you want to climb the Sacred Tower to meet the Cyber Goddess to seduce her...(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (89 reviews).
  • · Top 34% of 17,375 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.9k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 394 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $12.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
787820212026Week of 2021-06-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

15
achievements tracked
57.2%
earned "Entered"
17.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-11-09 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)33623%15
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)30883%11
PS5 (PlayStation)12489%12
PS5 (PlayStation)11895%12
PS4 (PlayStation)9396%12
PS4 (PlayStation)8792%12
Switch (Nintendo)80%0

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

Player tags

2D1980sAnimeFunnyIndieRetroActionArcadeAdventurePlatformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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