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Pajama Sam 2: Thunder And Lightning Aren't So Frightening

Humongous Entertainment · 2014-05-01

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 05, 2012 (iOS), Oct 02, 1998 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 02, 1998 (Mac)

Join Pajama Sam, the world's youngest superhero as he journeys to World Wide Weather, the storm-stirring factory in the sky!

98%
positive of 367 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (22 ratings)
4.93★
PlayStation Store rating (42 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)
Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening is a 1998 point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Humongous Entertainment for Windows and Macintosh. This game was ported to Android under the title Pajama Sam: Thunder and Lightning in April 2014. A Nintendo Switch version was released in February 2022, followed by the PlayStation 4 version on the PlayStation Store in November. The second game of the Pajama Sam franchise, it features the title character entering the World Wide Weather through his attic to stop a thunderstorm. The game was followed by Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat from Your Head to Your Feet in 2000.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 22,327 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.2k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 367 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.69 at WinGameStore (2015-09-04) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 19 of 36 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.79$0.692015-01-012026-09-032015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-07-10 — best price $1.742015-11-30 — best price $1.992016-05-02 — best price $6.992016-07-19 — best price $2.792016-11-22 — best price $2.792017-02-13 — best price $1.952017-04-28 — best price $6.992017-09-25 — best price $6.992017-11-28 — best price $6.992018-02-27 — best price $6.992018-06-18 — best price $2.792018-10-01 — best price $6.992019-01-01 — best price $6.992019-03-27 — best price $6.992019-07-08 — best price $2.792019-10-25 — best price $2.792020-01-09 — best price $2.792020-03-27 — best price $2.792020-06-26 — best price $2.792020-09-21 — best price $6.992020-12-31 — best price $6.992021-05-01 — best price $3.492021-08-02 — best price $3.492021-11-26 — best price $3.492022-02-28 — best price $6.992022-09-12 — best price $4.192023-01-05 — best price $6.992023-05-23 — best price $6.992023-11-16 — best price $6.992024-05-03 — best price $4.192024-08-30 — best price $6.992025-02-03 — best price $6.992025-08-22 — best price $6.992026-01-05 — best price $6.992026-06-19 — best price $4.192026-09-03 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, German, Dutch

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)9685%9
Switch (Nintendo)60%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FunnyCasualClassicAdventureNostalgiaSingleplayerPoint & ClickHack and SlashFamily FriendlyGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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