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Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual!

HappyGiant · Big Sugar · 2021-09-10

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AdventureIndie

Franchise: Sam & Max · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Feb 23, 2022 (PlayStation VR), Jul 08, 2021 (Oculus Quest), Jul 08, 2021 (Meta Quest 2), Jul 08, 2021 (Oculus VR), Sep 10, 2021 (SteamVR)

Sam is a dog in a suit. Max is his naked rabbity partner. Together, they’re the Freelance Police. Jump into the not-quite-right world of Sam & Max via the wonder science of virtual reality, and join the multimedia darlings in their never-ending quest to slap the stupid grin off the face of evil.

41%
positive of 103 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$29.99
steam price (US)
Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual! is a 2021 virtual reality video game developed by HappyGiant and published by Big Sugar. It is the fifth video game based on the Sam & Max comic book series by Steve Purcell, and the first original installment since Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse in 2010.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 19,414 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.1k–4.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 103 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $12.00 at GreenManGaming (2022-12-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320212026Week of 2021-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 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.

Price history

$29.99$12.002021-09-102025-11-172021-09-10 — best price $22.942021-10-02 — best price $29.992021-10-16 — best price $29.992021-11-02 — best price $29.992021-11-17 — best price $26.882021-11-24 — best price $25.492021-12-03 — best price $26.882021-12-16 — best price $19.192022-01-06 — best price $26.882022-01-17 — best price $26.882022-02-03 — best price $29.992022-02-23 — best price $22.492022-03-05 — best price $29.992022-04-01 — best price $29.992022-04-11 — best price $22.492022-05-04 — best price $22.492022-05-11 — best price $22.492022-05-25 — best price $29.992022-06-14 — best price $22.492022-07-07 — best price $22.042022-07-18 — best price $16.492022-08-12 — best price $17.992022-08-27 — best price $29.992022-09-26 — best price $16.492022-10-03 — best price $29.992022-10-31 — best price $16.492022-11-14 — best price $13.202022-12-01 — best price $29.992022-12-13 — best price $12.002023-01-05 — best price $29.992023-01-30 — best price $13.492023-02-06 — best price $23.892025-11-17 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2.7k32026-06-26 — 63 pageviews2026-06-29 — 24 pageviews2026-07-02 — 14 pageviews2026-07-05 — 19 pageviews2026-07-08 — 39 pageviews2026-07-11 — 17 pageviews2026-07-14 — 3 pageviews2026-07-17 — 7 pageviews2026-07-20 — 20 pageviews2026-07-23 — 18 pageviews2026-07-26 — 13 pageviews2026-07-29 — 15 pageviews2026-08-01 — 26 pageviews2026-08-04 — 14 pageviews2026-08-07 — 16 pageviews2026-08-10 — 20 pageviews2026-08-13 — 12 pageviews2026-08-16 — 12 pageviews2026-08-19 — 12 pageviews2026-08-22 — 9 pageviews2026-08-25 — 16 pageviews2026-08-28 — 7 pageviews2026-08-31 — 15 pageviews2026-09-03 — 8 pageviews2026-09-06 — 7 pageviews2026-09-09 — 14 pageviews2026-09-12 — 8 pageviews2026-09-15 — 4 pageviews2026-09-18 — 11 pageviews2026-09-21 — 14 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

43
achievements tracked
84.8%
earned "You Should See the Tequila Bottle"
14%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, French

Player tags

3DVRDogFunnyComedyPuzzleCartoonCartoonyAdventureDetective

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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