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inbento

Afterburn · 2021-07-30

SteamGOGMicrosoft Store

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 03, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 12, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 30, 2021 (Xbox One), Sep 03, 2019 (Android), Sep 03, 2019 (iOS)

A cooking puzzle game about arranging beautiful bento lunches! Solve 120+ recipes, play with food, think inside the box and enjoy a heartwarming story in this culinary brain-teaser!

inbento is a 2021 Casual and Indie game priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (97% of 2967 reviews).

180
playing now
97%
positive of 3.0k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
3h
to beat · rushed 3h · completionist 7h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

180 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Inbento is a puzzle video game developed by Afterburn and published by 7Levels. It was released 12 March 2020. Players must prepare a bento by following a recipe perfectly. Inbento had mostly positive reviews.

Trailer

inbento trailer thumbnail

inbento - Launch Trailer - Nintendo Switch

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 180 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 528 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~66/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 29,179 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 59k–134k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,967 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99
Microsoft Store$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.62 at GreenManGaming (2026-07-13) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 87 of 143 observed days · $4.37 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
32832820212026Week of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 309 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 328 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

18022026-09-15 15:00 — 11 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 7 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 13 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 9 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 6 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 12 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 6 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 7 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 8 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 7 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 9 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 10 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 11 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 15 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 13 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 142 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 180 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
771Aug 2021Aug 2026Aug 2021 — avg 3 · peak 12Dec 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2022 — avg 6 · peak 19Jul 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5Sep 2022 — avg 11 · peak 41Nov 2022 — avg 3 · peak 8Jan 2023 — avg 3 · peak 8Mar 2023 — avg 4 · peak 13May 2023 — avg 2 · peak 14Jul 2023 — avg 4 · peak 11Sep 2023 — avg 4 · peak 14Nov 2023 — avg 17 · peak 45Jan 2024 — avg 8 · peak 26Mar 2024 — avg 13 · peak 36May 2024 — avg 6 · peak 27Jul 2024 — avg 8 · peak 25Sep 2024 — avg 58 · peak 466Nov 2024 — avg 45 · peak 142Jan 2025 — avg 12 · peak 36Mar 2025 — avg 17 · peak 45May 2025 — avg 9 · peak 36Jul 2025 — avg 14 · peak 33Sep 2025 — avg 13 · peak 35Nov 2025 — avg 77 · peak 627Jan 2026 — avg 19 · peak 44Mar 2026 — avg 17 · peak 54May 2026 — avg 9 · peak 25Jul 2026 — avg 11 · peak 31Aug 2026 — avg 10 · peak 23
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.602021-07-302026-10-152021-07-30 — best price $2.992021-08-29 — best price $4.992021-11-15 — best price $2.502022-02-08 — best price $4.392022-07-11 — best price $1.872022-10-18 — best price $2.492023-01-19 — best price $4.992023-04-21 — best price $4.992023-06-19 — best price $3.932023-08-10 — best price $3.942023-10-02 — best price $1.122023-12-13 — best price $1.492024-01-25 — best price $1.492024-03-20 — best price $1.492024-04-23 — best price $1.252024-06-20 — best price $1.202024-08-12 — best price $1.132024-10-21 — best price $4.992024-12-12 — best price $0.992025-02-05 — best price $4.992025-03-17 — best price $0.852025-05-08 — best price $1.242025-06-18 — best price $1.242025-08-05 — best price $1.002025-09-19 — best price $4.992025-11-05 — best price $4.992025-12-25 — best price $4.992026-02-18 — best price $4.992026-04-08 — best price $0.992026-05-18 — best price $3.862026-07-16 — best price $4.992026-08-28 — best price $0.752026-09-12 — best price $4.992026-09-27 — best price $0.992026-10-12 — best price $4.992026-10-15 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1402026-05-30 — 3 pageviews2026-06-03 — 2 pageviews2026-06-07 — 4 pageviews2026-06-12 — 0 pageviews2026-06-16 — 1 pageviews2026-06-20 — 4 pageviews2026-06-24 — 0 pageviews2026-06-28 — 4 pageviews2026-07-02 — 1 pageviews2026-07-06 — 8 pageviews2026-07-10 — 2 pageviews2026-07-14 — 0 pageviews2026-07-18 — 2 pageviews2026-07-22 — 6 pageviews2026-07-26 — 4 pageviews2026-07-30 — 1 pageviews2026-08-03 — 3 pageviews2026-08-07 — 1 pageviews2026-08-11 — 1 pageviews2026-08-15 — 0 pageviews2026-08-19 — 1 pageviews2026-08-23 — 0 pageviews2026-08-27 — 4 pageviews2026-08-31 — 2 pageviews2026-09-04 — 1 pageviews2026-09-08 — 2 pageviews2026-09-12 — 1 pageviews2026-09-16 — 1 pageviews2026-09-20 — 6 pageviews2026-09-24 — 0 pageviews2026-09-28 — 2 pageviews2026-10-02 — 3 pageviews2026-10-06 — 1 pageviews2026-10-08 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
94.7%
earned "First Bite"
31%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyKeyboard Only OptionMouse Only Option

16 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,12234%15
Xbox One (Xbox)1,05569%15
Switch (Nintendo)1670%0
Switch (Nintendo)210%0

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyCasualLinearNaturePuzzleCookingRelaxingStylized

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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