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Teacup cover art

Teacup

Smarto Club · Whitethorn Games · 2021-09-23

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 23, 2021 (Xbox One), Sep 23, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Sep 23, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Sep 23, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Sep 30, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 23, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Teacup is a short and wholesome narrative adventure game with a focus on exploration and non-linear progression. Help a small and shy frog on her journey to find the ingredients she needs for her tea party!

Teacup is a 2021 Adventure, Casual, Indie game priced at $9.99, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 1189 reviews).

96%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
4.52★
PlayStation Store rating (162 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 109 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~14/week).
  • · Review velocity up 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 24k–54k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,211 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at IndieGala Store (2026-04-09) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 98 of 144 observed days · $9.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
282820212026Week of 2021-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$1.282021-09-232026-10-122021-09-23 — best price $8.432021-12-21 — best price $8.892022-03-15 — best price $9.992022-06-23 — best price $6.992022-08-17 — best price $5.992022-09-29 — best price $9.992022-12-15 — best price $5.992023-02-02 — best price $6.492023-04-11 — best price $7.892023-05-23 — best price $9.992023-07-01 — best price $7.862023-08-15 — best price $7.892023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-01-23 — best price $7.892024-03-15 — best price $4.792024-05-03 — best price $5.992024-07-04 — best price $9.992024-08-19 — best price $4.122024-10-11 — best price $4.492024-11-22 — best price $4.492025-01-23 — best price $4.992025-03-27 — best price $9.992025-05-20 — best price $9.992025-07-17 — best price $3.492025-09-08 — best price $1.992025-11-02 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-01-26 — best price $9.992026-02-28 — best price $9.992026-04-10 — best price $1.282026-05-13 — best price $2.002026-07-06 — best price $1.492026-08-13 — best price $2.492026-10-12 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
83%
earned "The Tea Encyclopedia"
55.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsKeyboard Only OptionPlayable without Timed Input1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-12-02 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)88369%13
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)58687%13
PS4 (PlayStation)42592%14
Switch (Nintendo)70%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyIndieColorfulRelaxingAdventureNarrativeNonlinearStory Rich

Census log

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

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