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Goobies

Höganäs Spel · 2023-07-14

Steam

ActionCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jul 14, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Battle thousands of blobs in this roguelike auto-shooter. Travel from island to island, defeat bosses, collect and upgrade items to become more powerful and discover lag-inducing combos in an endless blobbath.

12
playing now
91%
positive of 2.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 12 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 80 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity down 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (449 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 28,039 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 39k–88k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,960 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.21 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
40440420232026Week of 2023-07-01: 401 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 404 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 198 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2022026-09-15 18:00 — 6 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 7 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 7 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 15 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 11 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 8 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 23:00 — 10 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 7 players2026-09-27 14:00 — 13 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 7 players2026-09-30 05:00 — 7 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 20:00 — 10 players2026-10-04 04:00 — 8 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 11 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 16 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 7 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 10 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 14 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 19 players2026-10-13 09:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 13 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
52312Jul 2023Aug 2026Jul 2023 — avg 444 · peak 832Aug 2023 — avg 523 · peak 1,001Sep 2023 — avg 252 · peak 546Oct 2023 — avg 126 · peak 332Nov 2023 — avg 79 · peak 175Dec 2023 — avg 78 · peak 137Jan 2024 — avg 70 · peak 211Feb 2024 — avg 46 · peak 82Mar 2024 — avg 46 · peak 105Apr 2024 — avg 47 · peak 114May 2024 — avg 33 · peak 71Jun 2024 — avg 32 · peak 75Jul 2024 — avg 41 · peak 83Aug 2024 — avg 27 · peak 48Sep 2024 — avg 23 · peak 44Oct 2024 — avg 19 · peak 45Nov 2024 — avg 17 · peak 40Dec 2024 — avg 15 · peak 31Jan 2025 — avg 18 · peak 36Feb 2025 — avg 18 · peak 42Mar 2025 — avg 18 · peak 38Apr 2025 — avg 16 · peak 36May 2025 — avg 22 · peak 82Jun 2025 — avg 25 · peak 63Jul 2025 — avg 18 · peak 37Aug 2025 — avg 20 · peak 54Sep 2025 — avg 17 · peak 42Oct 2025 — avg 18 · peak 42Nov 2025 — avg 17 · peak 43Dec 2025 — avg 15 · peak 38Jan 2026 — avg 16 · peak 34Feb 2026 — avg 16 · peak 40Mar 2026 — avg 13 · peak 30Apr 2026 — avg 24 · peak 60May 2026 — avg 15 · peak 30Jun 2026 — avg 17 · peak 38Jul 2026 — avg 15 · peak 41Aug 2026 — avg 12 · peak 30
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$5.99$2.212023-07-142026-07-092023-07-14 — best price $4.792023-07-21 — best price $5.992023-09-25 — best price $4.792023-10-02 — best price $5.992023-11-21 — best price $4.012023-11-28 — best price $5.992023-12-22 — best price $3.952024-01-04 — best price $5.992024-03-14 — best price $4.192024-03-21 — best price $5.992024-06-27 — best price $3.592024-07-11 — best price $5.992025-10-01 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $5.992025-11-17 — best price $2.932025-11-24 — best price $5.992025-12-18 — best price $2.872026-01-05 — best price $5.992026-03-19 — best price $2.392026-03-26 — best price $5.992026-06-08 — best price $2.332026-06-15 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $2.212026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

43
achievements tracked
99.7%
earned "Goober"
37.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,1686%43

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

Player tags

3DRPGRetroActionArcadeCasualVampireAction RPGRogue-liteBullet Hell

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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