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Mystery P.I.™ - The Lottery Ticket

SpinTop Games · Electronic Arts · 2007-10-16

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 25, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are the world-famous Mystery P.I. and you've been hired by Grandma Rose to find her $488 million dollar winning lottery ticket that has gone missing! Retrace Grandma's steps to collect clues by finding hidden objects and solving puzzles. Search the city for the clues and piece them together to solve the case.

Mystery P.I.™ - The Lottery Ticket is a 2007 Casual game priced at $4.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 90 reviews).

0
playing now
86%
positive of 90 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

Mystery P.I.: The Lottery Ticket is a hidden object game, created by Canadian studio SpinTop Games. The title is published by PopCap Games. The object of the game is to find a lottery ticket belonging to the player character's grandmother. When it is found, the player character is rewarded with over 400 million dollars in prize money. Before that, the player must find various hidden objects and solve various clues which all relate to the lottery ticket.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 28,977 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.6k–7.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 90 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
4420142026Week of 2014-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 4 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 4 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 4 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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 $0.992022-07-07 — best price $4.992022-12-22 — best price $0.992023-02-27 — best price $4.992023-05-15 — best price $0.992023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $0.992024-03-14 — best price $0.992024-04-30 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $0.992025-02-10 — best price $4.992025-05-01 — best price $0.992025-06-20 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-02-10 — best price $4.992026-04-23 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1002026-05-30 — 3 pageviews2026-06-03 — 5 pageviews2026-06-08 — 3 pageviews2026-06-12 — 6 pageviews2026-06-17 — 0 pageviews2026-06-21 — 7 pageviews2026-06-25 — 2 pageviews2026-06-29 — 2 pageviews2026-07-03 — 5 pageviews2026-07-07 — 3 pageviews2026-07-11 — 4 pageviews2026-07-15 — 2 pageviews2026-07-19 — 1 pageviews2026-07-23 — 5 pageviews2026-07-27 — 4 pageviews2026-07-31 — 5 pageviews2026-08-04 — 3 pageviews2026-08-08 — 3 pageviews2026-08-12 — 3 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-20 — 2 pageviews2026-08-24 — 5 pageviews2026-08-28 — 1 pageviews2026-09-01 — 5 pageviews2026-09-05 — 2 pageviews2026-09-09 — 4 pageviews2026-09-13 — 2 pageviews2026-09-17 — 2 pageviews2026-09-21 — 8 pageviews2026-09-25 — 3 pageviews2026-09-29 — 4 pageviews2026-10-03 — 10 pageviews2026-10-07 — 0 pageviews2026-10-08 — 0 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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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