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Milo and the Magpies cover art

Milo and the Magpies

Johan Scherft · Second Maze · 2021-09-07

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 07, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 07, 2021 (Mac), Jan 26, 2022 (iOS)

Milo and the Magpies is a point-and-click, hidden object game following the story of a little cat named Milo who is trying to find his way home after getting turned around by an unfortunate encounter with some pesky magpies.

1
playing now
98%
positive of 3.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
0.9h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 2h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 166 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~21/week).
  • · Review velocity down 26% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 69k–154k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,428 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.49-50%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.49-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2021-12-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 21 of 38 observed days · $0.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
34834820212026Week of 2021-09-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 348 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 303 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 25 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-08-11 19:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.992021-09-072026-08-302021-09-07 — best price $1.692021-11-01 — best price $1.992021-12-23 — best price $0.992022-02-03 — best price $1.992022-11-22 — best price $1.332023-01-05 — best price $1.992023-05-24 — best price $1.332023-07-13 — best price $1.992023-11-21 — best price $1.332024-01-04 — best price $1.992024-03-14 — best price $1.792024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $2.002024-12-24 — best price $1.792025-03-13 — best price $2.002025-05-08 — best price $2.992025-07-24 — best price $1.792025-08-15 — best price $1.792025-09-01 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $2.002025-10-08 — best price $2.992025-11-10 — best price $1.492025-12-03 — best price $2.992026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-02-04 — best price $1.672026-02-20 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-05-13 — best price $1.492026-06-25 — best price $1.672026-08-07 — best price $1.492026-08-29 — best price $1.492026-08-30 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
70.9%
earned "The Firefly"
46.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

20 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,56766%10

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

Player tags

2DCatsCuteIndiePuzzleColorfulAdventureHand-drawnStory RichExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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