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Handshakes

Pet Pumpkin · 2023-01-13

Steam

CasualFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Co-operative

Take your brain for a walk in Handshakes, a simple yet tricksy sokoban puzzle game. Guide two hands through puzzles designed to stump, not frustrate, so that they may achieve their dream of a warm, firm handshake.

99%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
0.9h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 225 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~28/week).
  • · Review velocity up 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (751 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 10,293 Casual games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
74974920232026Week of 2023-01-01: 749 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 293 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 309 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play Together1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,13020%9

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

Census log

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

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