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Mystery P.I.™ - The New York Fortune cover art

Mystery P.I.™ - The New York Fortune

SpinTop Games · Electronic Arts · 2009-01-28

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 28, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A fun loving & eccentric New York billionaire has hidden the will to his vast fortune somewhere in New York City! His family only has 17 hours to locate the will or their Grandpa's entire estate will be given to his cat & dog. You are the world famous Mystery P.I.

Mystery P.I.™ - The New York Fortune is a 2009 Casual title priced at $4.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (84% of 62 reviews).

2
playing now
84%
positive of 62 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 41% of 29,098 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 2.5k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 62 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
2220122026Week of 2012-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
51Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 5 · peak 14Nov 2012 — avg 1 · peak 7Mar 2013 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2013 — avg 1 · peak 7Nov 2013 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2014 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2014 — avg 3 · peak 8Nov 2014 — avg 1 · peak 7Mar 2015 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2015 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2016 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2016 — avg 2 · peak 6Mar 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 8Mar 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 6Nov 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5Mar 2023 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2023 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Apr 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Aug 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6Mar 2025 — avg 2 · peak 7Oct 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 8
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 $0.992022-07-07 — 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).

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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