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SquareCells

Matthew Brown · 2015-12-07

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 07, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 07, 2015 (Mac), Dec 07, 2015 (Linux)

SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.

2
playing now
90%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
3h
to beat · completionist 7.3h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

SquareCells is a 2015 puzzle game developed and published by Matthew Brown Games. It was released for Steam on 7 December 2015.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 18% of 9,617 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 32k–76k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,267 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2016-10-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-11 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.892015-12-072026-07-092015-12-07 — best price $2.992016-06-23 — best price $1.492016-11-29 — best price $2.992017-06-22 — best price $0.892017-10-23 — best price $2.992018-02-15 — best price $0.892018-07-05 — best price $2.992018-11-21 — best price $0.892019-01-28 — best price $2.992019-06-26 — best price $0.892019-09-23 — best price $2.992020-01-23 — best price $0.892020-04-20 — best price $2.992020-10-29 — best price $0.892020-12-01 — best price $2.992021-02-11 — best price $0.892021-07-08 — best price $2.992021-11-24 — best price $0.892022-05-24 — best price $2.992022-09-12 — best price $0.892022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-03-16 — best price $0.892023-07-13 — best price $2.992023-11-06 — best price $0.892024-01-04 — best price $2.992024-04-08 — best price $0.892024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $0.892025-02-03 — best price $2.992025-05-29 — best price $0.892025-09-08 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $0.892026-06-04 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
78.4%
earned "World 1 Complete"
59.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,96174%7

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

Player tags

2DIndieLogicCasualPuzzleMinimalistSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.