The Game Census
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Speaking Simulator

Affable Games · 2020-01-30

SteamPlayStation Store

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jan 29, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 18, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Jan 30, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 30, 2020 (Mac)

The hilarious game about the complexity of conversation. Move your tongue and lips to make your words come out and try not to let your face explode.

80%
positive of 69 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 40,590 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 69 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.19 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920202026Week of 2020-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$1.192020-01-302025-07-102020-01-30 — best price $13.492020-03-19 — best price $9.742020-05-15 — best price $7.492020-06-25 — best price $7.492021-03-04 — best price $2.992021-09-08 — best price $11.542021-10-28 — best price $2.992021-11-11 — best price $2.542023-09-15 — best price $3.742023-10-16 — best price $7.992023-11-28 — best price $7.992024-01-04 — best price $7.992024-07-11 — best price $7.992024-08-12 — best price $7.992024-09-23 — best price $7.992024-11-04 — best price $7.992024-12-04 — best price $7.992024-12-16 — best price $7.992025-03-20 — best price $7.992025-04-01 — best price $7.992025-07-10 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions availableSteam CloudSteam Leaderboards

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Player tags

IndieMemesCasualComedyRobotsPhysicsDifficultDark HumorDating SimSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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