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Howloween Hero cover art

Howloween Hero

Gossamer Games · 2021-10-25

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Oct 25, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 26, 2023 (iOS), Oct 26, 2023 (Android), Oct 21, 2022 (Nintendo Switch)

A spooky trick-or-treat adventure about a mischievous puppy on a mission to score the evening's best candy. Create your costume, explore the neighborhood, and help your friends track down a menacing monster to save Halloween.

97%
positive of 66 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

Howloween Hero is a sugary sweet trick-or-treat adventure where you run around town as a mischievous puppy on a mission to track down your owner's favorite candy. But rumor has it, a menacing monster is on the prowl and sniffing around for their next victim...(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 27,615 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 66 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2021-11-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920212026Week of 2021-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$4.992021-10-252026-01-052021-10-25 — best price $5.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992021-11-25 — best price $4.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $4.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-10-25 — best price $4.992022-11-01 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $4.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $4.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-10-26 — best price $4.992023-11-02 — best price $9.992023-12-22 — best price $6.692024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $6.692024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-08-15 — best price $4.992024-08-22 — best price $9.992024-10-28 — best price $4.992024-11-04 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992024-12-20 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-11-10 — best price $4.992025-11-17 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish

Player tags

DogCuteFunnyCasualComedyPuzzleSandboxCartoonyColorfulRelaxing

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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