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Papo & Yo cover art

Papo & Yo

Minority Media Inc. · Minority Media · 2013-04-18

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 18, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 15, 2012 (PlayStation 3), Jan 07, 2014 (Linux), Jan 07, 2014 (Mac)

Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.

0
playing now
93%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (9 outlets, IGDB)
75/100
IGDB user rating (61 ratings)
4h
to beat · completionist 4.4h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Papo & Yo is an adventure video game developed and published by Minority Media for the PlayStation 3. It was originally released on August 14, 2012 on the PlayStation Network and since April 18, 2013 on Microsoft Windows through Steam. It was released on January 7, 2014 on OS X and Linux through the Humble Indie Bundle X, and on July 1, 2015 via Steam. The game involves a young South-American boy Quico who, while hiding from his abusive, alcoholic father, finds himself taken to a dream-like favela, and meeting a normally docile creature, Monster. The player, as Quico, can interact with Monster and manipulate the buildings of the favela in unique ways, such as by stacking individual shacks on each other, to complete puzzles and progress in the game. Papo & Yo was designed by Vander Caballero, who created the story based on his own past in dealing with an abusive, alcoholic father.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 115k–230k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,875 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2021-10-07) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020182026Week of 2018-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-08-11 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$16.99$2.242015-01-012025-08-162015-01-01 — best price $3.742015-07-16 — best price $3.742015-12-22 — best price $2.242016-09-22 — best price $14.992017-06-23 — best price $9.852018-06-21 — best price $7.492020-05-26 — best price $13.392020-06-10 — best price $13.392020-06-26 — best price $11.012020-07-22 — best price $14.992020-08-06 — best price $14.992020-08-22 — best price $14.992020-09-15 — best price $14.992020-10-03 — best price $14.992020-10-18 — best price $14.992020-11-03 — best price $14.992020-11-18 — best price $14.992020-12-03 — best price $14.992020-12-18 — best price $14.992021-01-02 — best price $14.992021-01-17 — best price $14.992021-02-01 — best price $14.992021-02-17 — best price $13.392021-03-06 — best price $13.392021-03-21 — best price $13.392021-04-05 — best price $13.392021-04-20 — best price $13.392021-05-05 — best price $13.392021-05-20 — best price $13.392021-06-04 — best price $13.392021-11-06 — best price $14.992024-07-30 — best price $14.992025-08-16 — best price $13.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
72.5%
earned "Lula Power"
18.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

6 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS3 (PlayStation)11,54531%10
Steam (Steam)8,46716%10

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

Player tags

IndieShortPuzzleFantasySurrealAdventureEmotionalPlatformerStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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