The Game Census
Quell cover art

Quell

Fallen Tree Games Ltd · Green Man Gaming Publishing · 2015-05-14

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 03, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 07, 2010 (iOS), May 14, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 14, 2011 (Android)

An enchanting game of logic and relaxation.

98%
positive of 453 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$3.99
steam price (US)
Quell is a 2010 puzzle game created by British studio Fallen Tree Games and released on August 7, 2010, for iOS and Android.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 44,082 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–27k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 453 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.15 at GameBillet (2025-03-03) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 5 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120172026Week of 2017-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 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 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.252015-05-082026-07-092015-05-08 — best price $3.992016-03-11 — best price $3.992016-08-05 — best price $3.792017-01-12 — best price $0.792017-11-16 — best price $0.792018-05-28 — best price $3.992018-09-10 — best price $9.992018-11-20 — best price $0.392019-05-23 — best price $3.992019-10-31 — best price $0.342020-03-13 — best price $0.342020-08-04 — best price $3.992021-04-01 — best price $3.992021-11-02 — best price $3.992022-03-12 — best price $0.792022-06-24 — best price $0.392022-10-04 — best price $0.392022-12-06 — best price $3.512023-02-20 — best price $3.992023-05-23 — best price $3.992023-11-25 — best price $3.512024-03-15 — best price $0.392024-05-29 — best price $3.992024-08-19 — best price $3.992024-10-16 — best price $0.872024-12-23 — best price $0.292025-02-08 — best price $3.352025-03-20 — best price $3.992025-06-08 — best price $2.742025-07-18 — best price $0.342025-09-02 — best price $3.272025-11-04 — best price $3.602026-07-09 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1212026-07-09 — 6 pageviews2026-07-12 — 9 pageviews2026-07-15 — 6 pageviews2026-07-18 — 7 pageviews2026-07-21 — 3 pageviews2026-07-24 — 1 pageviews2026-07-27 — 1 pageviews2026-07-30 — 3 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1 pageviews2026-08-05 — 8 pageviews2026-08-08 — 3 pageviews2026-08-11 — 3 pageviews2026-08-14 — 1 pageviews2026-08-17 — 9 pageviews2026-08-20 — 7 pageviews2026-08-23 — 1 pageviews2026-08-26 — 2 pageviews2026-08-29 — 2 pageviews2026-09-01 — 2 pageviews2026-09-04 — 6 pageviews2026-09-07 — 12 pageviews2026-09-10 — 2 pageviews2026-09-13 — 4 pageviews2026-09-16 — 9 pageviews2026-09-19 — 4 pageviews2026-09-22 — 2 pageviews2026-09-25 — 4 pageviews2026-09-28 — 1 pageviews2026-10-01 — 2 pageviews2026-10-04 — 6 pageviews2026-10-06 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
91.2%
earned "Minimalist"
63%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,24648%35
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

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

Player tags

IndieCasualPuzzleAbstractRelaxingHand-drawnMinimalistSingleplayerGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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