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My Friendly Neighborhood

John Szymanski · DreadXP · 2023-07-18

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

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.

My Friendly Neighborhood is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2023, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (95% of 3438 reviews).

14
playing now
95%
positive of 3.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
2
Nexus mods (29 downloads)
4.64★
PlayStation Store rating (292 ratings)
8h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

14 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 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.

Trailer

My Friendly Neighborhood trailer thumbnail

My Friendly Neighborhood - Official Launch Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 14 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 8% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 69k–155k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,438 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 6 of 11 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

3022026-09-15 18:00 — 10 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 14 players2026-09-18 09:00 — 9 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 15 players2026-09-21 00:00 — 9 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 5 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 23:00 — 13 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 8 players2026-09-27 14:00 — 14 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 13 players2026-09-30 05:00 — 6 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 20:00 — 16 players2026-10-04 04:00 — 17 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 10 players2026-10-06 19:00 — 16 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 15 players2026-10-09 10:00 — 9 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 21 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 11 players2026-10-13 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 14 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
3639Jul 2023Aug 2026Jul 2023 — avg 363 · peak 1,009Aug 2023 — avg 103 · peak 258Sep 2023 — avg 45 · peak 117Oct 2023 — avg 36 · peak 115Nov 2023 — avg 30 · peak 102Dec 2023 — avg 26 · peak 92Jan 2024 — avg 24 · peak 85Feb 2024 — avg 14 · peak 37Mar 2024 — avg 21 · peak 85Apr 2024 — avg 37 · peak 89May 2024 — avg 23 · peak 68Jun 2024 — avg 20 · peak 61Jul 2024 — avg 20 · peak 51Aug 2024 — avg 14 · peak 32Sep 2024 — avg 12 · peak 30Oct 2024 — avg 16 · peak 41Nov 2024 — avg 15 · peak 45Dec 2024 — avg 17 · peak 57Jan 2025 — avg 17 · peak 48Feb 2025 — avg 15 · peak 36Mar 2025 — avg 20 · peak 60Apr 2025 — avg 12 · peak 30May 2025 — avg 12 · peak 32Jun 2025 — avg 16 · peak 40Jul 2025 — avg 21 · peak 49Aug 2025 — avg 34 · peak 106Sep 2025 — avg 14 · peak 37Oct 2025 — avg 13 · peak 40Nov 2025 — avg 13 · peak 36Dec 2025 — avg 12 · peak 41Jan 2026 — avg 14 · peak 39Feb 2026 — avg 11 · peak 31Mar 2026 — avg 13 · peak 39Apr 2026 — avg 12 · peak 30May 2026 — avg 11 · peak 24Jun 2026 — avg 10 · peak 31Jul 2026 — avg 11 · peak 30Aug 2026 — avg 9 · peak 30
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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

123412026-05-30 — 80 pageviews2026-06-03 — 100 pageviews2026-06-07 — 110 pageviews2026-06-11 — 75 pageviews2026-06-15 — 91 pageviews2026-06-19 — 67 pageviews2026-06-23 — 58 pageviews2026-06-27 — 97 pageviews2026-07-01 — 50 pageviews2026-07-05 — 86 pageviews2026-07-09 — 64 pageviews2026-07-13 — 73 pageviews2026-07-17 — 62 pageviews2026-07-21 — 97 pageviews2026-07-25 — 71 pageviews2026-07-29 — 84 pageviews2026-08-02 — 55 pageviews2026-08-06 — 56 pageviews2026-08-10 — 65 pageviews2026-08-14 — 61 pageviews2026-08-18 — 58 pageviews2026-08-22 — 47 pageviews2026-08-26 — 41 pageviews2026-08-30 — 55 pageviews2026-09-03 — 55 pageviews2026-09-07 — 79 pageviews2026-09-11 — 76 pageviews2026-09-15 — 61 pageviews2026-09-19 — 77 pageviews2026-09-23 — 51 pageviews2026-09-27 — 45 pageviews2026-10-01 — 48 pageviews2026-10-05 — 56 pageviews2026-10-09 — 78 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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

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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