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LEAVES - The Return

ZAR 21 · Daedalic Entertainment · 2017-03-14

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 14, 2017 (Mac), Mar 14, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Mononino and the Treefruities fared well without you - until another disaster scattered the leaves of their home tree. Once more, take on the journey and challenging puzzles along the way.

LEAVES - The Return is a 2017 Adventure and Indie title priced at $4.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (85% of 442 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
85%
positive of 442 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
5.5h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 28,821 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 11k–27k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 442 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.24 at Gamer Thor (2025-10-05)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 77 of 103 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120172026Week of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 07:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 8 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 4 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$0.312017-03-142026-08-292017-03-14 — best price $6.072017-11-06 — best price $7.992018-04-23 — best price $7.992018-10-10 — best price $7.192019-03-07 — best price $7.992019-07-22 — best price $6.232019-11-14 — best price $1.592020-02-20 — best price $0.792020-06-06 — best price $7.992020-08-31 — best price $7.992020-10-14 — best price $7.092021-01-01 — best price $0.672021-03-08 — best price $7.992021-05-09 — best price $4.992021-08-18 — best price $0.492021-11-18 — best price $0.402022-02-08 — best price $4.392022-05-10 — best price $4.392022-08-11 — best price $0.462022-11-15 — best price $3.492023-03-17 — best price $3.892023-07-30 — best price $0.492023-11-22 — best price $0.492024-03-04 — best price $0.402024-06-03 — best price $0.752024-09-16 — best price $0.992024-10-28 — best price $0.592024-12-30 — best price $0.752025-04-28 — best price $0.752025-07-26 — best price $3.662025-09-08 — best price $0.752025-11-11 — best price $4.012026-01-23 — best price $0.592026-05-04 — best price $0.752026-08-21 — best price $0.582026-08-29 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
37.4%
earned "Upset the Treefruities"
22.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-04-21 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)70148%16

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

Player tags

IndiePuzzleAdventurePoint & Click

Census log

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

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