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Assoupi · The Arcade Crew · 2025-03-06

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 06, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 06, 2025 (Nintendo Switch)

MainFrames invites you to meet Floppy and to browse a clever and charming platformer that plays out entirely within the windows and desktop of a PC monitor. You won’t want to press the escape key on this cozy outing!

88%
positive of 203 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.54
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (55 reviews).
  • · Top 51% of 13,097 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.1k–9.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 203 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.54-65%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.54 at Steam (2026-03-19) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
474720252026Week of 2025-03-06: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-03-06: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-03-13: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-20: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-03-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-10: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-15: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-26: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-03: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-03: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$0.002021-03-272026-08-312021-03-27 — best price $0.002025-03-06 — best price $9.742025-03-13 — best price $12.992025-05-12 — best price $9.742025-05-19 — best price $12.992025-06-26 — best price $6.492025-07-10 — best price $12.992025-08-18 — best price $6.492025-08-25 — best price $12.992025-09-29 — best price $6.492025-10-06 — best price $12.992025-10-09 — best price $6.492025-10-16 — best price $12.992025-12-18 — best price $6.492026-01-02 — best price $12.992026-01-05 — best price $12.992026-02-12 — best price $5.192026-02-19 — best price $12.992026-03-19 — best price $4.542026-03-26 — best price $12.992026-04-27 — best price $4.542026-05-05 — best price $12.992026-06-25 — best price $4.542026-07-09 — best price $12.992026-07-20 — best price $4.542026-07-27 — best price $12.992026-08-31 — best price $4.54
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

33
achievements tracked
38.4%
earned "Soft-saver 01"
20%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2379%33
Switch (Nintendo)370%0
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteRetro1990'sPuzzlePhysicsColorfulAdventureFast-PacedPlatformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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