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Sideway™ New York cover art

Sideway™ New York

Playbrains · 2011-11-15

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Oct 11, 2011 (PlayStation 3), Nov 15, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Battle your way through a twisted graffiti world where your prowess in puzzle solving makes the difference between life & death!

Sideway™ New York is an Adventure and Indie game released in 2011, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (58% of 125 reviews).

0
playing now
58%
positive of 125 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
5h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
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.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 5.0k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 125 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2016-11-23) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320112026Week of 2011-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2011-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2012-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2012-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 negativeWeek 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 2014-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 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 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.992015-01-012020-05-252015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-01-02 — best price $9.992015-06-11 — best price $3.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992015-10-29 — best price $2.492015-11-02 — best price $9.992015-11-25 — best price $4.992015-12-01 — best price $9.992015-12-22 — best price $4.992016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-06-23 — best price $2.992016-07-04 — best price $9.992016-11-23 — best price $1.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $1.992017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-06-22 — best price $1.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-10-27 — best price $2.992017-11-01 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $2.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $2.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-06-21 — best price $2.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-10-30 — best price $3.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-11-21 — best price $3.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992018-12-21 — best price $3.992019-01-04 — best price $9.992020-04-27 — best price $7.342020-05-11 — best price $9.992020-05-12 — best price $7.342020-05-25 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
60.9%
earned "Gone Sideway"
7.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play Together

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

Player tags

IndieAdventurePlatformerLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

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