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Nine Noir Lives

Silvernode Games · 2022-09-07

SteamGOGEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 07, 2022 (Mac), Sep 07, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 07, 2022 (Linux), Apr 16, 2024 (Xbox One)

Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town?

89%
positive of 160 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

Welcome to Meow Meow Furrington, capital city of cats, home of the world's biggest ball of yarn...and hotbed of crime. You are Cuddles Nutterbutter, feline private investigator and owner of two perfectly normal-sized paws, the doctor said so. After agreeing to take on a last-minute case for the Chief of Police, you and your plucky assistant find yourselves investigating a murder that risks upsetting the careful balance between the city's two most powerful crime families: the Montameeuws and the Catulets. Cuddles will need to use every skill he's learned - as well as his definitely-not-smalle(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 42% of 19,468 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.2k–7.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 160 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Gamesplanet$1.75-91%
Fanatical$1.79-91%
IndieGala$1.99-90%
WinGameStore$1.99-90%
DreamGame$2.00-90%
GamersGate$2.00-90%
GOG$4.19-79%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $2.00 · on sale 7 of 41 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720222026Week of 2022-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.00$1.692026-08-062026-09-222026-08-06 — best price $1.692026-08-08 — best price $1.692026-08-10 — best price $1.692026-08-12 — best price $1.692026-08-14 — best price $1.992026-08-16 — best price $1.992026-08-18 — best price $1.992026-08-20 — best price $1.992026-08-22 — best price $1.992026-08-24 — best price $1.992026-08-26 — best price $1.992026-08-28 — best price $1.992026-08-30 — best price $1.992026-09-01 — best price $1.992026-09-10 — best price $2.002026-09-12 — best price $2.002026-09-14 — best price $1.792026-09-16 — best price $1.792026-09-18 — best price $1.752026-09-20 — best price $1.752026-09-22 — best price $1.75
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

43
achievements tracked
80.9%
earned "IP Justice!"
41%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-09-13 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DCatsCuteNoirFunnyComedyPuzzleMysteryCartoonyRelaxing

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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