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Khimera: Puzzle Island cover art

Khimera: Puzzle Island

Suits & Sandals · 2020-11-29

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 29, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

She's back just in time to do all the puzzles in your Sunday paper! It's a Khimera Nonogram adventure!

98%
positive of 344 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 34 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 20,038 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.9k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 344 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2023-12-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
282820202026Week of 2020-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 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

$8.99$0.492020-11-302026-07-092020-11-30 — best price $8.092021-02-11 — best price $5.842021-06-24 — best price $4.492021-10-28 — best price $4.492021-11-24 — best price $4.492021-12-22 — best price $2.692022-04-17 — best price $6.992022-07-07 — best price $6.992022-11-29 — best price $6.992023-01-05 — best price $6.992023-02-13 — best price $6.992023-03-23 — best price $6.992023-05-01 — best price $6.992023-07-13 — best price $6.992023-11-21 — best price $2.492023-12-21 — best price $0.492024-03-14 — best price $2.492024-06-27 — best price $1.492024-12-20 — best price $2.492025-03-13 — best price $2.492025-06-26 — best price $1.492025-09-29 — best price $1.492025-12-18 — best price $2.492026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
83.4%
earned "Island Arrival"
48.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-11-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)60145%24

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

Player tags

IndieCasualPuzzleAdventureSingleplayerPixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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