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Sheep cover art

Sheep

Minds Eye Productions · Strategy First · 2025-06-12

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 18, 2001 (Mac), Nov 29, 2000 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 06, 2000 (PlayStation), Apr 25, 2012 (PlayStation 3), Apr 25, 2012 (PlayStation Portable)

In this Lemmings-inspired game, your goal is to herd sheep across 28 hazard-filled levels so they can be rescued by their educated alien cousins. You herd four breeds of sheep and have to protect them from the evil mr. Pear.

97%
positive of 76 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)
Sheep is a strategy puzzle video game released for PlayStation, Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Advance. In 2001 it was released for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive. The Game Boy Advance version was released in March 2002 in the EU, while the intended North American release was cancelled for unknown reasons.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (28 reviews).
  • · Top 46% of 14,720 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 76 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2025-09-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720252026Week of 2025-06-12: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-06-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-19: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-27: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-27: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.66$0.592015-04-132026-10-082015-04-13 — best price $7.992015-04-23 — best price $12.002015-04-30 — best price $12.322015-06-18 — best price $12.662015-07-08 — best price $12.332016-02-16 — best price $11.132016-05-06 — best price $11.522016-06-24 — best price $10.692016-07-07 — best price $10.302025-06-12 — best price $2.392025-06-20 — best price $2.992025-07-25 — best price $2.992025-08-08 — best price $2.242025-08-22 — best price $2.992025-09-09 — best price $0.742025-09-16 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $0.592025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-11-06 — best price $0.592025-11-20 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $0.592025-12-24 — best price $0.592025-12-31 — best price $2.992026-01-19 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $0.592026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-04-05 — best price $0.592026-04-12 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $0.892026-07-09 — best price $2.992026-07-17 — best price $0.742026-07-24 — best price $2.992026-08-06 — best price $1.192026-08-20 — best price $2.992026-09-09 — best price $0.742026-09-16 — best price $2.992026-10-01 — best price $0.892026-10-08 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Japanese

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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