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Shiny The Firefly cover art

Shiny The Firefly

Stage Clear Studios · Headup · 2014-05-16

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 27, 2014 (Wii U), May 16, 2014 (Mac), May 16, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 16, 2014 (Linux)

Shiny the Firefly is a challenging platform adventure game. Journey through a mysterious garden as Shiny, a brave firefly on a quest to find his children, lost in a terrible accident. Master trials,solve puzzles and use your stealth to guide your children to safety.

Shiny The Firefly is a $0.99 Action, Adventure, Casual and Indie game released in 2014, estimated to have 20,000 .. 50,000 owners, with a Mixed review sentiment (64% of 135 reviews).

0
playing now
64%
positive of 135 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.4k–8.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 135 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.64 at Fanatical (2025-11-03) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 18 of 36 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320142026Week of 2014-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.752015-01-012026-08-232015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-08-27 — best price $1.992016-05-20 — best price $9.992017-01-26 — best price $9.992017-07-11 — best price $9.992017-12-11 — best price $2.492018-06-08 — best price $9.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-02-22 — best price $2.502019-07-19 — best price $9.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-04-20 — best price $9.992020-06-18 — best price $1.002020-08-15 — best price $9.992020-09-13 — best price $8.892020-10-15 — best price $9.992020-11-13 — best price $9.992020-12-14 — best price $8.382021-01-26 — best price $9.992021-03-06 — best price $9.992021-04-05 — best price $8.382021-05-04 — best price $9.992021-06-03 — best price $9.992021-08-16 — best price $1.992021-11-18 — best price $8.382022-03-07 — best price $0.992022-11-01 — best price $1.692023-04-04 — best price $9.992023-11-16 — best price $9.992024-03-26 — best price $0.992024-09-16 — best price $0.992025-02-17 — best price $0.992025-09-08 — best price $0.992026-02-09 — best price $0.992026-08-03 — best price $0.792026-08-23 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
3.5%
earned "Dad"
3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Russian

Player tags

IndieActionCasualAdventurePlatformer

Census log

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

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