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Smile Dog cover art

Smile Dog

Sweet Sennin Games · 2025-08-22

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Aug 22, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A desktop psychological horror inspired by the Smile Dog creepypasta. Open the attachment, read your emails, and survive a real nightmare spilling out across your screen.

Smile Dog is an Indie, Simulation game released in 2025, priced at $2.99, with a Very Positive sentiment (92% of 62 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

92%
positive of 66 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 44% of 49,684 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 66 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.09 at Steam (2026-06-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120252026Week of 2025-08-22: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-12: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-28: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$2.092025-08-222026-07-052025-08-22 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $2.392025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-10-27 — best price $2.392025-11-03 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.392026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.392026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-04-09 — best price $2.392026-04-16 — best price $2.992026-06-21 — best price $2.092026-07-05 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, Polish, Italian, German, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian

Census log

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

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