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Garlic Builder

CaveLiquid · Gamersky Games · 2024-01-15

Steam

CasualIndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 15, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Garlic Builder is a unique building game. As the new builder of the Garlic Family, can you inherit your father's building hammer, take various orders, follow the blueprint, or use your imagination to fulfill the strange needs of your customers?

Garlic Builder is a Casual, Indie, RPG, and Simulation game released in 2024, priced at $7.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 380 reviews) and an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000.

93%
positive of 380 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 191 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~24/week).
  • · Review velocity up 1636% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 9,562 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.6k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 380 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.63 at Fanatical (2026-08-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 12 of 25 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
828220242026Week of 2024-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$0.632024-01-162026-08-032024-01-16 — best price $6.792024-02-21 — best price $6.392024-03-14 — best price $5.992024-04-15 — best price $5.592024-05-27 — best price $5.592024-06-27 — best price $5.192024-07-29 — best price $5.192024-09-06 — best price $5.192024-10-22 — best price $4.792024-11-27 — best price $4.392024-12-20 — best price $3.992025-01-20 — best price $3.992025-03-05 — best price $3.992025-03-13 — best price $3.992025-04-28 — best price $3.992025-06-27 — best price $3.192025-07-17 — best price $2.392025-09-10 — best price $2.392025-09-29 — best price $2.392025-11-10 — best price $1.592025-12-18 — best price $1.592026-01-08 — best price $0.792026-02-21 — best price $0.792026-03-19 — best price $0.792026-04-03 — best price $7.992026-04-08 — best price $7.992026-04-15 — best price $7.992026-06-26 — best price $0.872026-07-13 — best price $7.992026-08-03 — best price $0.63
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
57.8%
earned "Beginning"
14.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)24035%7

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

Player tags

RPGCuteFunnyCasualCartoonSandboxBuildingCraftingRelaxingCapitalism

Census log

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

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