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Mystery Case Files: Huntsville™

Big Fish Games · BFG Entertainment · 2010-04-21

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 18, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 01, 2005 (Linux), Nov 18, 2005 (Mac)

Do you have a keen eye for detail? See if you can locate enough hidden clues to solve the crimes and become a Master Detective. Mystery Case Files: Huntsville™ provides players with a collection of intriguing mysteries and brain-teasers to solve. There are picture puzzles to ponder, strange crime scenes to explore, and much, much, more!

Mystery Case Files: Huntsville™ is a Casual game released in 2010, priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive sentiment based on 85% of 122 reviews.

1
playing now
85%
positive of 122 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (0 outlets, IGDB)
61/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
6.5h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Mystery Case Files is a video game series originally developed by the internal studios of Big Fish Games. Sequels were then developed by Elephant Games between 2013 and 2014 and Eipix Entertainment between 2015 and 2019. The newest installments have been developed by GrandMA Studios since 2020. The Mystery Case Files series is known for its hidden object puzzles where, in order to progress through a game, the player plays the role of a Master Detective and must find a certain number of items hidden somewhere on a painted scene.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.9k–9.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 122 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520142026Week of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 7 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 6 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
40Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2012 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2013 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2013 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2013 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2014 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2014 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2015 — avg 0 · peak 1Mar 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 5Jan 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Jun 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Dec 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Apr 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2023 — avg 2 · peak 5Mar 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6Sep 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Jan 2026 — avg 4 · peak 10Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$23.74$0.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-04-01 — best price $15.952015-04-21 — best price $15.952015-05-07 — best price $15.952015-09-10 — best price $7.472016-01-04 — best price $3.732016-04-04 — best price $14.952016-06-27 — best price $14.952016-11-24 — best price $7.472017-02-14 — best price $7.472017-06-22 — best price $4.992017-09-11 — best price $14.952017-11-29 — best price $14.952018-01-03 — best price $14.952018-03-19 — best price $14.952018-06-01 — best price $7.472018-07-16 — best price $14.952018-09-21 — best price $7.472018-10-29 — best price $4.992018-12-01 — best price $14.952019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-04-19 — best price $7.472019-06-28 — best price $7.472019-08-09 — best price $7.472019-11-01 — best price $9.992019-12-19 — best price $3.492020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-10-29 — best price $4.492021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-11-24 — best price $3.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992023-02-20 — best price $4.992023-04-24 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-07-02 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2061122026-05-31 — 164 pageviews2026-06-04 — 163 pageviews2026-06-08 — 142 pageviews2026-06-12 — 148 pageviews2026-06-16 — 130 pageviews2026-06-20 — 141 pageviews2026-06-24 — 123 pageviews2026-06-28 — 206 pageviews2026-07-02 — 149 pageviews2026-07-06 — 138 pageviews2026-07-10 — 121 pageviews2026-07-14 — 151 pageviews2026-07-18 — 148 pageviews2026-07-22 — 125 pageviews2026-07-26 — 154 pageviews2026-07-30 — 154 pageviews2026-08-03 — 175 pageviews2026-08-07 — 140 pageviews2026-08-11 — 151 pageviews2026-08-15 — 156 pageviews2026-08-19 — 124 pageviews2026-08-23 — 163 pageviews2026-08-27 — 129 pageviews2026-08-31 — 180 pageviews2026-09-04 — 157 pageviews2026-09-08 — 142 pageviews2026-09-12 — 161 pageviews2026-09-16 — 137 pageviews2026-09-20 — 133 pageviews2026-09-24 — 152 pageviews2026-09-28 — 166 pageviews2026-10-02 — 121 pageviews2026-10-06 — 117 pageviews2026-10-09 — 147 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualMysteryHidden Object

Census log

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

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