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Piggy Gambit

Tofu Soup · 2023-05-05

Steam

AdventureIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Piggy Gambit is a game that harmoniously combines the elements of chess, box puzzles, and flow control into a coherent puzzle game about a piggy searching for the meaning to his life.

95%
positive of 59 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$7.99
steam price (US)

Our protagonist is a piggy who spent many years away from the real world. He now yearns for his purpose in life but struggles to find the way.So one day, with vagueness and anticipation of the known, he set forth towards the end of the world. Little did he know, he is about to be toiled in an aeon of strife within in the Chess Kingdom while as embarks on his mystical journey. As he cracks one intricate puzzle after another, he gradually grasps a higher understanding of this strange world around him.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 73% of 12,283 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.2k–2.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 59 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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212120232026Week of 2023-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, French

Player tags

CuteFunnyIndieComedyPuzzleSokobanCartoonyStrategyAdventureBoard Game

Census log

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

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