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Milkmaid of the Milky Way cover art

Milkmaid of the Milky Way

Mattis Folkestad · machineboy · 2017-01-04

SteamGOG

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 04, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 04, 2017 (Mac), Aug 22, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 04, 2017 (Linux), Jan 05, 2017 (iOS), May 18, 2017 (Android)

Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an award-winning point-and-click adventure game in rhyme that combines a gripping story with puzzles and exploration. What happens when a young milkmaid sees an alien craft in a fjord in 1920's Norway?

0
playing now
95%
positive of 555 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

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

Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an independent adventure game for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. It was developed by Mattis "machineboy" Folkestad and released on January 5, 2017. The game's plot features a Scandinavian milkmaid, Ruth, who loses her cows to a spacecraft, and has to jump aboard to save them.

Health check

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  • · Top 39% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–33k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 555 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.19-80%
GOG$1.19-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.19-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.77 at Steam (2026-07-20) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 34 of 56 observed days · $0.42 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.24$0.952017-01-052026-08-302017-01-05 — best price $6.392017-10-26 — best price $2.992018-04-24 — best price $6.112018-11-01 — best price $5.992019-01-07 — best price $5.992019-04-16 — best price $2.832019-08-05 — best price $6.652019-12-15 — best price $6.662020-04-20 — best price $6.512020-12-01 — best price $5.992021-04-01 — best price $1.192021-07-08 — best price $5.992021-11-26 — best price $2.992022-02-14 — best price $3.592022-07-01 — best price $5.842022-10-03 — best price $5.992022-12-15 — best price $3.192023-02-21 — best price $5.992023-05-08 — best price $6.602023-07-25 — best price $5.992023-10-25 — best price $3.172024-01-04 — best price $5.992024-02-14 — best price $4.792024-04-12 — best price $5.992024-06-17 — best price $5.992024-08-26 — best price $1.792024-10-23 — best price $5.992025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-03-03 — best price $1.492025-04-14 — best price $5.992025-06-18 — best price $0.952025-08-18 — best price $5.992025-10-07 — best price $1.492025-11-14 — best price $5.992026-02-23 — best price $1.492026-04-03 — best price $1.292026-05-18 — best price $5.992026-07-24 — best price $1.192026-08-29 — best price $1.192026-08-30 — best price $1.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, French, Norwegian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)61087%6
Switch (Nintendo)50%0
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

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

Player tags

2DIndieShortAdventureNarrationStory RichPoint & ClickPixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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