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Sometimes Always Monsters

Vagabond Dog · 2020-04-02

SteamPlayStation Store

IndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 02, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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75%
positive of 162 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
4.01★
PlayStation Store rating (166 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)
Sometimes Always Monsters is a 2020 role-playing video game developed and published by Canadian studio Vagabond Dog for Windows. It is the sequel to the 2014 video game Always Sometimes Monsters.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (44 reviews).
  • · Top 29% of 47,504 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.2k–7.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 162 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
282820202026Week of 2020-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$100.00$3.742016-09-022026-10-082016-09-02 — best price $12.502020-04-02 — best price $17.992020-05-07 — best price $17.982020-06-09 — best price $15.992020-10-12 — best price $19.992020-11-25 — best price $14.992020-12-21 — best price $19.992021-02-01 — best price $13.992021-02-15 — best price $19.992021-04-23 — best price $11.992021-06-04 — best price $19.992021-06-24 — best price $10.992021-08-02 — best price $13.992021-09-06 — best price $19.982021-10-28 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $19.992022-02-14 — best price $9.992022-05-11 — best price $19.992022-06-20 — best price $19.992022-09-07 — best price $9.992022-11-29 — best price $19.992022-12-22 — best price $9.992023-02-20 — best price $19.992023-11-21 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-05-20 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-04-12 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $3.742026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-10-01 — best price $3.742026-10-08 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-07-14 — 6 pageviews2026-07-17 — 6 pageviews2026-07-20 — 4 pageviews2026-07-23 — 3 pageviews2026-07-26 — 8 pageviews2026-07-29 — 2 pageviews2026-08-01 — 3 pageviews2026-08-04 — 4 pageviews2026-08-07 — 3 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-13 — 7 pageviews2026-08-16 — 5 pageviews2026-08-19 — 1 pageviews2026-08-22 — 4 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-28 — 7 pageviews2026-08-31 — 6 pageviews2026-09-03 — 2 pageviews2026-09-06 — 0 pageviews2026-09-09 — 3 pageviews2026-09-12 — 1 pageviews2026-09-15 — 2 pageviews2026-09-18 — 5 pageviews2026-09-21 — 4 pageviews2026-09-24 — 3 pageviews2026-09-27 — 12 pageviews2026-09-30 — 1 pageviews2026-10-03 — 5 pageviews2026-10-06 — 11 pageviews2026-10-09 — 7 pageviews2026-10-11 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

59
achievements tracked
53.2%
earned "Heretic of Horror"
20.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2020-04-15, latest 2020-08-04 (Steam store data)

Player tags

RPGIndieLGBTQ+SequelLife SimRPGMakerTop-DownStory RichSingleplayerPhilosophical

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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