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How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale cover art

How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale

Mens Sana Interactive · 2020-02-14

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 26, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 14, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 14, 2020 (Mac)

All you need is love and a cat. Discover a romance through the eyes of the cat Buddy in this minimalist jigsaw puzzle game, told in 6 scenes illustrated by @Katia.Numakura with her lovely art style.

90%
positive of 248 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 15,229 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.0k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 248 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.39 at Steam (2020-02-14) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920202026Week of 2020-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$1.99$1.392020-02-142026-09-072020-02-14 — best price $1.392020-06-08 — best price $1.392020-08-03 — best price $1.392020-10-29 — best price $1.392020-11-25 — best price $1.592021-02-11 — best price $1.392021-04-12 — best price $1.392021-06-25 — best price $1.392021-09-07 — best price $1.992021-10-25 — best price $1.992021-12-01 — best price $1.992022-02-03 — best price $1.992022-04-04 — best price $1.992022-07-10 — best price $1.992022-09-26 — best price $1.992023-01-02 — best price $1.992023-05-01 — best price $1.992023-07-13 — best price $1.992023-09-25 — best price $1.992023-11-28 — best price $1.992024-01-04 — best price $1.992024-03-11 — best price $1.992024-04-30 — best price $1.992024-07-11 — best price $1.992024-11-04 — best price $1.992024-12-22 — best price $1.992025-03-27 — best price $1.992025-07-10 — best price $1.992025-10-06 — best price $1.992026-01-05 — best price $1.992026-03-26 — best price $1.992026-06-03 — best price $1.992026-09-07 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
71.6%
earned "Eye contact"
20%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Korean

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-01-07 (Steam store data)

Player tags

CatsCuteCasualPuzzleCartoonRomanceCartoonyRelaxingTabletopImmersive

Census log

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

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