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Sparkle 2 cover art

Sparkle 2

10tons Ltd · 2015-06-01

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Dec 21, 2020 (PlayStation 5), Mar 10, 2015 (PlayStation 3), May 21, 2014 (PlayStation 4), Sep 28, 2017 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 01, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 27, 2016 (Xbox One)

Challenge the darkness with your swift orb matching skills, mighty magical enchantments and earthshaking powerups. Match the orbs before they fall into the abyss and find your way through mysterious lands of startling beauty!

Sparkle 2 is a 2015 Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game priced at $7.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive sentiment (91% of 245 reviews).

6
playing now
91%
positive of 245 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
4.26★
PlayStation Store rating (5,819 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 27,960 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.1k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 245 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$7.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.79 at SilaGames (2018-11-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 4 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620162026Week of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek 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 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1402026-09-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 12:00 — 7 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-29 03:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 6 players2026-10-01 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 5 players2026-10-09 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 14 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
90May 2015Aug 2026May 2015 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2015 — avg 3 · peak 10Jan 2016 — avg 4 · peak 15May 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Sep 2016 — avg 9 · peak 40Jan 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8May 2017 — avg 3 · peak 8Sep 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2018 — avg 3 · peak 19May 2018 — avg 3 · peak 14Sep 2018 — avg 2 · peak 8Jan 2019 — avg 2 · peak 9May 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Sep 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2020 — avg 2 · peak 10May 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Sep 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Jan 2021 — avg 3 · peak 9May 2021 — avg 2 · peak 6Sep 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Jan 2022 — avg 3 · peak 8May 2022 — avg 2 · peak 10Sep 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Jan 2023 — avg 3 · peak 9May 2023 — avg 3 · peak 9Sep 2023 — avg 3 · peak 8Jan 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8May 2024 — avg 3 · peak 7Sep 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Jun 2025 — avg 2 · peak 6Dec 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 8Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$7.99$1.912015-06-012026-10-112015-06-01 — best price $6.792016-02-12 — best price $7.992016-11-30 — best price $6.992017-10-26 — best price $2.392018-02-12 — best price $7.992018-07-06 — best price $7.992018-09-14 — best price $7.992018-12-10 — best price $7.992019-11-01 — best price $7.992020-04-21 — best price $6.612020-06-07 — best price $6.612020-06-25 — best price $2.792020-07-20 — best price $7.192020-08-20 — best price $7.192020-09-07 — best price $7.192020-10-03 — best price $5.872020-10-25 — best price $7.192020-11-12 — best price $7.992020-12-02 — best price $7.992021-01-03 — best price $7.992021-01-19 — best price $6.692021-02-11 — best price $2.792021-03-08 — best price $2.552021-04-15 — best price $7.992021-05-04 — best price $7.992021-05-22 — best price $7.992021-06-17 — best price $7.992021-11-01 — best price $7.992022-01-27 — best price $3.992022-07-08 — best price $6.282023-05-02 — best price $7.992024-01-15 — best price $3.992024-11-27 — best price $2.792025-09-29 — best price $2.792026-09-20 — best price $7.992026-10-11 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
43.6%
earned "Chain 12X"
26%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)11,8276%14
PS Vita (PlayStation)3,07016%14
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)1,3765%14
Steam (Steam)83813%14
PS3 (PlayStation)68711%14
PS5 (PlayStation)51410%14
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieActionArcadeCasualClassicFantasyMatch 3Adventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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