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Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory cover art

Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory

Turtle Cream · 2012-11-07

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 03, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A cube of sugar escapes the factories to avoid the fate of being a cookie!

Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory is an Action Indie game released in 2012, priced at $6.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 201 reviews).

0
playing now
72%
positive of 201 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (12 reviews).
  • · Top 29% of 27,912 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.0k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 201 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.69 at Humble Store (2015-05-20) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220122025Week of 2012-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2013-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2013-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.692015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $1.742015-03-05 — best price $1.392015-07-05 — best price $0.692015-09-11 — best price $6.992016-01-04 — best price $6.992016-05-05 — best price $1.742016-08-01 — best price $6.992016-11-01 — best price $6.992017-05-11 — best price $1.742017-11-16 — best price $1.742018-02-19 — best price $6.992018-07-17 — best price $5.592018-11-01 — best price $6.992019-01-24 — best price $6.992019-05-24 — best price $4.992019-09-12 — best price $6.992019-12-19 — best price $1.742020-04-27 — best price $1.742020-07-15 — best price $6.992020-12-22 — best price $1.742021-04-12 — best price $6.992021-10-28 — best price $1.742022-02-02 — best price $6.992022-09-26 — best price $1.742022-12-22 — best price $1.742023-05-05 — best price $0.692023-09-01 — best price $1.742024-01-01 — best price $6.992024-07-11 — best price $6.992024-12-04 — best price $6.992025-05-25 — best price $6.992026-01-05 — best price $6.992026-07-09 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
49.4%
earned "Pretzel break"
8.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,3563%20

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

Player tags

2DCuteIndieShortActionCasualPuzzleColorfulDifficultComic Book

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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