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Goodboy Galaxy cover art

Goodboy Galaxy

Goodboy Galaxy Ltd. · 2024-10-25

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: TBD (Nintendo Switch), Nov 28, 2023 (Game Boy Advance), Oct 25, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 25, 2024 (Linux), Dec 15, 2023 (Evercade)

A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting, slicing, shrinking, warping and drilling.

95%
positive of 154 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)
Goodboy Galaxy is a 2023 action-adventure game developed for the Game Boy Advance in celebration of its 20th anniversary by Rik Nicol and Jeremy Clarke. It is the first full commercial Game Boy Advance release in over 13 years. The game was also released for the PC and Evercade. Development is ongoing for the Nintendo Switch.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (36 reviews).
  • · Top 34% of 27,615 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.1k–6.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 154 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $22.49 at Steam (2024-10-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 0 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
353520242026Week of 2024-10-25: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-10-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-08: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-22: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-06: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-31: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-25: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$22.492024-10-252026-10-082024-10-25 — best price $22.492024-11-01 — best price $24.992026-03-19 — best price $22.492026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-06-25 — best price $22.492026-07-09 — best price $24.992026-10-01 — best price $22.492026-10-08 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
90.9%
earned "Crash Landing"
21.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-10-25 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DDogSpaceActionAliensComedySci-fiCartoonyColorfulAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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