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Her Majesty's SPIFFING cover art

Her Majesty's SPIFFING

Billy Goat Entertainment Ltd · Secret Mode · 2016-12-07

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 13, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Feb 01, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 07, 2016 (Xbox One), Dec 07, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 07, 2016 (Mac), Dec 07, 2016 (Linux)

Her Majesty's SPIFFING is a quaint graphic adventure game following the exploits of Captain Frank Lee English and his trusted regional accented colleague, Aled, as they travel through the cosmos in search of planets to claim for a new Galactic British Empire!

80%
positive of 326 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)
Her Majesty's SPIFFING is an adventure video game developed and published by Billy Goat Entertainment Ltd. It was released worldwide for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows, and PCs running Linux on 7 December 2016. The game is set after the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union and the queen's use of the royal prerogative to take control over the country herself and the subsequent set up of a space organisation called SPIFFING. The plot follows Captain Frank Lee English and his Welsh subordinate Aled Jones in their attempts to establish a galactic British Empire.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 13,462 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.2k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 326 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.99
Microsoft Store$11.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.25 at Playsum (2025-04-30) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $18.99 · on sale 132 of 133 observed days · $10.74 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
292920162026Week of 2016-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$18.99$1.312016-12-072026-09-072016-12-07 — best price $17.092018-01-04 — best price $11.992018-03-31 — best price $11.992018-06-15 — best price $7.792018-10-11 — best price $11.992019-02-22 — best price $8.382019-09-15 — best price $8.562020-01-29 — best price $11.992020-05-25 — best price $11.992021-02-23 — best price $11.992021-07-08 — best price $11.992022-03-01 — best price $10.702022-11-12 — best price $11.042023-07-25 — best price $11.172024-01-25 — best price $3.512024-03-18 — best price $12.992024-05-06 — best price $11.992024-08-01 — best price $10.792024-09-19 — best price $3.602024-10-24 — best price $3.462024-11-24 — best price $2.882024-12-21 — best price $2.552025-01-06 — best price $11.392025-02-01 — best price $2.752025-02-28 — best price $2.722025-04-03 — best price $11.992025-05-06 — best price $9.932025-06-16 — best price $2.992025-07-26 — best price $2.992025-08-25 — best price $9.932025-10-07 — best price $2.342025-11-13 — best price $2.302025-12-08 — best price $2.392026-02-03 — best price $2.252026-04-05 — best price $11.992026-05-21 — best price $2.002026-07-10 — best price $9.932026-08-13 — best price $2.402026-09-07 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Completion

25
achievements tracked
95.3%
earned "One small step…"
31.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)4,05593%26
Xbox One (Xbox)2,05882%25
Steam (Steam)69127%25
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

FunnyIndieShortSpaceComedySatireAdventurePoint & Click

Census log

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

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