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Inspector Waffles cover art

Inspector Waffles

Goloso Games · 2021-03-23

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 14, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 14, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Oct 29, 2021 (Xbox One), Mar 23, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Murder. Nothin’ nice about it. In this old school detective adventure, step into the boots of whip-smart Inspector Waffles and travel the city to track hidden clues, interrogate shady suspects, and unravel a dangerous mystery. But be warned: curiosity killed the cat...

95%
positive of 301 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.58★
PlayStation Store rating (91 ratings)
7h
to beat · completionist 7h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$12.99
steam price (US)
Inspector Waffles is a 2021 point-and-click adventure game developed by the French solo studio Goloso Games. Set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, it follows the title character, a cat detective, as he investigates the murder of a prominent industrialist in the fictional Cat Town. The game was released for Windows, macOS and Linux in March 2021, first through Steam and GOG and then on Itch.io, before being ported to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 later that year through publisher Hitcents.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 23 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 27,333 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.0k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 301 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$1.94-85%
GOG$12.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$12.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.00 at Game Jolt (2018-08-07) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 43 of 66 observed days · $10.99 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320212026Week of 2021-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 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: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$2.002018-08-072026-10-112018-08-07 — best price $2.002021-03-24 — best price $12.992021-08-05 — best price $11.042021-11-03 — best price $12.992022-01-05 — best price $12.992022-02-07 — best price $12.992022-03-22 — best price $9.542022-05-09 — best price $12.992022-06-24 — best price $7.792022-11-01 — best price $9.092022-12-27 — best price $10.282023-07-13 — best price $12.992023-11-16 — best price $6.492024-01-09 — best price $5.192024-03-19 — best price $5.192024-05-16 — best price $12.992024-08-07 — best price $5.192024-10-26 — best price $12.992024-12-20 — best price $5.192025-02-21 — best price $12.992025-05-01 — best price $5.192025-06-26 — best price $5.192025-09-11 — best price $12.992025-10-09 — best price $5.192025-12-18 — best price $3.242026-03-11 — best price $3.242026-04-15 — best price $3.492026-07-09 — best price $12.992026-09-15 — best price $12.992026-09-23 — best price $3.252026-10-01 — best price $3.242026-10-09 — best price $12.992026-10-11 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1402026-08-08 — 14 pageviews2026-08-10 — 9 pageviews2026-08-12 — 8 pageviews2026-08-14 — 9 pageviews2026-08-16 — 1 pageviews2026-08-18 — 7 pageviews2026-08-20 — 5 pageviews2026-08-22 — 2 pageviews2026-08-24 — 6 pageviews2026-08-26 — 4 pageviews2026-08-28 — 4 pageviews2026-08-30 — 1 pageviews2026-09-02 — 1 pageviews2026-09-04 — 6 pageviews2026-09-06 — 5 pageviews2026-09-08 — 5 pageviews2026-09-10 — 3 pageviews2026-09-12 — 1 pageviews2026-09-14 — 0 pageviews2026-09-17 — 4 pageviews2026-09-19 — 4 pageviews2026-09-21 — 4 pageviews2026-09-23 — 2 pageviews2026-09-25 — 1 pageviews2026-09-27 — 5 pageviews2026-09-29 — 1 pageviews2026-10-01 — 2 pageviews2026-10-03 — 8 pageviews2026-10-05 — 1 pageviews2026-10-07 — 4 pageviews2026-10-09 — 2 pageviews2026-10-10 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
73.6%
earned "Why am I not drinking a piña colada?"
33.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, French

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-03-26 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)38927%15
PS4 (PlayStation)37279%16
Xbox One (Xbox)35869%15
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

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

Player tags

2DDogCatsNoirCrimeFunnyPuzzleMysteryDetectiveNarration

Census log

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

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