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Mystery P.I. - Lost in Los Angeles

SpinTop Games · Electronic Arts · 2009-07-27

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 27, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Seek & Find the Hollywood Blockbuster! The only copy of this year's biggest blockbuster movie has gone missing the day before the VIP Hollywood premiere. You are the world famous Mystery P.I. and have been hired to track down and return the lost movie. Seek & Find over 2100 hidden objects in 25 stunning L.A.

Mystery P.I. - Lost in Los Angeles is a $4.99 Casual game released in 2009, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (84% of 67 reviews).

2
playing now
84%
positive of 67 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 29,944 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 2.7k–5.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 67 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2021-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320142026Week of 2014-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-16 18:00 — 5 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 5 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 7 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 6 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 4 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 5 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 5 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-15 16:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
61Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 6 · peak 20Dec 2012 — avg 3 · peak 10May 2013 — avg 2 · peak 8Oct 2013 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2014 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2014 — avg 2 · peak 6Jan 2015 — avg 2 · peak 9Jun 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Apr 2016 — avg 2 · peak 8Sep 2016 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8May 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2019 — avg 2 · peak 6Aug 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2020 — avg 2 · peak 5Jun 2020 — avg 3 · peak 9Nov 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Apr 2021 — avg 3 · peak 8Sep 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Feb 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Dec 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9May 2023 — avg 3 · peak 10Oct 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Mar 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2024 — avg 3 · peak 7Feb 2025 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2025 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-22 — best price $4.992016-06-23 — best price $1.242016-11-29 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $1.242017-11-01 — best price $4.992017-12-21 — best price $2.492018-02-19 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $1.242019-01-03 — best price $4.992019-06-26 — best price $1.242019-12-03 — best price $4.992020-06-04 — best price $2.492020-12-01 — best price $4.992021-06-25 — best price $0.992021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-01-27 — best price $0.992022-11-22 — best price $0.992023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $0.992023-05-29 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $3.042024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-03-28 — best price $4.992024-05-13 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $0.992025-05-15 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-11-20 — best price $0.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-12 — best price $0.992026-05-07 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualHidden Object

Census log

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

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