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My Friendly Neighborhood

John Szymanski · DreadXP · 2023-07-18

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 18, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 17, 2025 (PlayStation 4), Jul 17, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Jul 17, 2025 (Xbox One), Jul 17, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)

Something scary is happening with everyone's favorite Saturday morning puppet show, The Friendly Neighborhood! Play as Gordon, a repairman sent to get to the bottom of this disturbing dilemma. Fend off puppets and solve puzzles in this survival horror adventure.

5
playing now
95%
positive of 3.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
8h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

My Friendly Neighborhood is a 2023 indie survival horror video game developed by brothers John and Evan Szymanski and published by DreadXP. Inspired by the children's shows Sesame Street and The Muppets, the game follows a repairman who is sent to disable the signal at an abandoned television studio, where the puppets from the canceled show have come to life and become hostile.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 5 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 179 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (871 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 69k–154k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,431 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2025-08-06) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 7 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
84084020232026Week of 2023-07-01: 840 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 367 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2012026-08-11 22:00 — 14 players2026-08-12 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 17 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 21:00 — 11 players2026-08-16 13:00 — 10 players2026-08-17 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 11 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 9 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 11 players2026-08-22 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 13 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 20 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 18:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 5 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 10 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 10 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$14.992023-07-182026-08-132023-07-18 — best price $26.992023-08-03 — best price $29.992023-10-26 — best price $22.492023-11-02 — best price $29.992023-11-28 — best price $29.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-02-05 — best price $29.992024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-04-22 — best price $29.992024-05-21 — best price $29.992024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-09-02 — best price $29.992024-11-04 — best price $29.992024-12-04 — best price $29.992025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-08-06 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $17.992025-10-27 — best price $17.992025-12-18 — best price $17.992026-03-19 — best price $17.992026-04-16 — best price $23.992026-06-25 — best price $17.992026-08-13 — best price $17.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

128352026-05-30 — 80 pageviews2026-06-02 — 109 pageviews2026-06-05 — 90 pageviews2026-06-08 — 95 pageviews2026-06-11 — 75 pageviews2026-06-14 — 81 pageviews2026-06-17 — 66 pageviews2026-06-20 — 65 pageviews2026-06-23 — 58 pageviews2026-06-26 — 68 pageviews2026-06-29 — 68 pageviews2026-07-02 — 97 pageviews2026-07-05 — 86 pageviews2026-07-08 — 79 pageviews2026-07-11 — 69 pageviews2026-07-14 — 76 pageviews2026-07-17 — 62 pageviews2026-07-20 — 112 pageviews2026-07-23 — 79 pageviews2026-07-26 — 96 pageviews2026-07-29 — 84 pageviews2026-08-01 — 102 pageviews2026-08-04 — 43 pageviews2026-08-07 — 35 pageviews2026-08-10 — 65 pageviews2026-08-13 — 66 pageviews2026-08-16 — 53 pageviews2026-08-19 — 61 pageviews2026-08-22 — 47 pageviews2026-08-25 — 53 pageviews2026-08-27 — 62 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

43
achievements tracked
90.2%
earned "The Trusty Wrench"
14.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)5,9417%43
Steam (Steam)2,6466%43
PS5 (PlayStation)23624%44
PS4 (PlayStation)3043%44

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

Player tags

FPSFunnyHorrorPuzzleShooterSurvivalAdventureLore-RichStory RichExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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