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Recesses

Sanjuny · 2024-08-23

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 23, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It's recess. Time to play cards, find your missing friend, discover the meaning of life. The usual 5th grade playground stuff.

97%
positive of 73 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 79% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 64% of 21,029 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 73 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2026-08-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days · $4.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320242026Week of 2024-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$0.992024-08-232026-09-052024-08-23 — best price $2.992024-09-06 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $2.492025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $2.492025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-08-23 — best price $2.492025-09-01 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $2.492025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $2.492026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-05-04 — best price $2.492026-05-11 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-22 — best price $0.992026-09-05 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieStrategyCard GameRogue-likeRogue-liteStory RichCard BattlerDeckbuilding

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.