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Portponky · Shambles Software · 2016-09-30

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 30, 2016 (Linux), Sep 30, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 30, 2016 (Mac)

A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.

3
playing now
97%
positive of 665 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 36% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 17k–40k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 665 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2019-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.992016-10-012026-07-092016-10-01 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $7.992017-02-13 — best price $9.992017-05-15 — best price $7.992017-10-26 — best price $3.992017-11-28 — best price $7.992018-02-15 — best price $3.992018-07-05 — best price $7.992018-10-30 — best price $2.712018-11-27 — best price $7.992019-06-26 — best price $2.712019-11-01 — best price $7.992020-01-23 — best price $1.992020-07-09 — best price $7.992020-12-22 — best price $1.992021-02-15 — best price $7.992021-08-16 — best price $1.992022-01-05 — best price $7.992022-05-19 — best price $1.992022-07-07 — best price $7.992022-12-22 — best price $1.992023-03-09 — best price $7.992023-04-24 — best price $1.992023-06-15 — best price $7.992023-08-03 — best price $1.992023-11-28 — best price $7.992024-03-14 — best price $1.992024-05-30 — best price $7.992024-11-27 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $7.992025-05-29 — best price $1.992025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-03-26 — best price $7.992026-06-25 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Czech, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,0569%17

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

Player tags

2DIndiePuzzleAdventureDifficultPlatformerPixel GraphicsFamily FriendlyGreat SoundtrackPuzzle-Platformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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