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Scary Girl cover art

Scary Girl

TikGames · Square Enix · 2012-04-09

SteamXbox

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jan 24, 2012 (PlayStation 3), Mar 01, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 18, 2012 (Xbox 360)

In this side-scrolling action game, you play as Scarygirl – a girl who has been adopted by a giant intelligent octopus and is trying to figure out who the man haunting her dreams is. Traverse unique, extremely vibrant, colorful, and magical worlds in a seamless mix of 2D and 3D platforming action.

Scary Girl is a 2012 Action game priced at $6.99, with a Mixed sentiment based on 69% of 100 reviews, and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
69%
positive of 100 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
66/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
6h
to beat · rushed 4h · completionist 8h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Scarygirl is a platform game for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network and Microsoft Windows. Scarygirl was previously a graphic novel by Nathan Jurevicius, a Flash game, and a downloadable title for the PlayStation Portable. It was developed by TikGames and published by Square Enix.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 28,039 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.0k–8.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 100 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at GamesPlanet US (2019-07-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220122026Week of 2012-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2012-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 00:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$8.26$0.792015-01-012026-08-112015-01-01 — best price $6.492015-01-22 — best price $6.492015-02-25 — best price $6.992015-03-21 — best price $7.562015-04-13 — best price $4.992015-05-05 — best price $6.992015-06-02 — best price $6.992015-07-08 — best price $1.752015-07-23 — best price $3.812015-10-02 — best price $6.802015-12-08 — best price $6.992016-02-23 — best price $2.092016-06-01 — best price $6.992016-12-20 — best price $1.742017-06-22 — best price $1.392018-03-27 — best price $0.972018-11-21 — best price $0.972019-02-23 — best price $0.972019-07-30 — best price $0.792019-11-21 — best price $0.972020-01-20 — best price $1.032020-02-08 — best price $1.022020-03-18 — best price $0.972020-06-25 — best price $0.972021-02-11 — best price $0.972021-07-08 — best price $6.992021-12-22 — best price $0.972022-03-25 — best price $0.842023-01-05 — best price $6.992024-01-04 — best price $6.992024-08-14 — best price $0.972025-01-27 — best price $0.972025-08-05 — best price $0.972026-01-22 — best price $0.972026-08-04 — best price $0.972026-08-11 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

73122026-06-01 — 20 pageviews2026-06-05 — 23 pageviews2026-06-09 — 12 pageviews2026-06-13 — 14 pageviews2026-06-17 — 20 pageviews2026-06-21 — 27 pageviews2026-06-25 — 21 pageviews2026-06-29 — 24 pageviews2026-07-03 — 17 pageviews2026-07-07 — 24 pageviews2026-07-11 — 27 pageviews2026-07-15 — 16 pageviews2026-07-19 — 21 pageviews2026-07-23 — 28 pageviews2026-07-27 — 40 pageviews2026-07-31 — 18 pageviews2026-08-04 — 30 pageviews2026-08-08 — 38 pageviews2026-08-12 — 32 pageviews2026-08-16 — 33 pageviews2026-08-20 — 24 pageviews2026-08-24 — 12 pageviews2026-08-28 — 23 pageviews2026-09-01 — 23 pageviews2026-09-05 — 23 pageviews2026-09-09 — 25 pageviews2026-09-13 — 28 pageviews2026-09-17 — 27 pageviews2026-09-21 — 24 pageviews2026-09-25 — 18 pageviews2026-09-29 — 28 pageviews2026-10-03 — 29 pageviews2026-10-07 — 22 pageviews2026-10-11 — 21 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
65.7%
earned "Dreamer"
8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

ActionHorrorPlatformerFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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