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Lunch Lady cover art

Lunch Lady

Manic Mice · 2021-04-15

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Apr 15, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Lunch Lady is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. The school final exams are coming up and the best idea you and your friends had was to steal the test answers. Find all 10 pages and don't get caught by the murderous Lunch Lady!

12
playing now
85%
positive of 13k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 12 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 242 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~30/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (932 reviews).
  • · Top 10% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 260k–585k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 12,992 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-10-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
77477420212026Week of 2021-04-01: 762 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 774 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 598 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 117 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 376 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 398 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 222 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 613 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 344 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 241 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5682026-08-06 22:00 — 21 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 16 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 32 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 32 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 27 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 45 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 44 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 40 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 51 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 30 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 24 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 25 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 27 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 12 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 25 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 20 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 33 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 28 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 16 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 28 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 19 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 34 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 21 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 18 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 9 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 12 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 15 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$2.992021-04-152026-08-102021-04-15 — best price $4.242021-06-04 — best price $4.992021-10-28 — best price $3.992021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-01-27 — best price $3.742022-05-30 — best price $4.992022-08-01 — best price $3.742022-09-26 — best price $4.992022-11-22 — best price $3.742023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-02-20 — best price $3.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-05-15 — best price $3.992023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-09-11 — best price $3.992023-11-02 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $3.742024-02-12 — best price $4.992024-04-29 — best price $3.992024-06-17 — best price $4.992024-08-05 — best price $3.992024-09-23 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $3.492025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-02-24 — best price $3.492025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-05-19 — best price $3.492025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-08-25 — best price $3.492025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-02-09 — best price $4.992026-04-13 — best price $2.992026-06-01 — best price $4.992026-08-03 — best price $2.992026-08-10 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
92.4%
earned "Whacked!"
10.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudStatsSteam Leaderboards

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7,3070%114

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

Player tags

FPSPvEDarkCo-opActionHorrorTeam-BasedExplorationMultiplayerCollectathon

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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