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The Academy: The First Riddle

Pine Studio · Snapbreak · 2020-06-19

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jun 19, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 19, 2020 (Mac), Jun 19, 2020 (Android), Jun 19, 2020 (iOS)

The Academy is a puzzle-packed adventure set in a school filled with mystery. Leave your mark on Arbor's Academy and find out why it only welcomes the best and the brightest.

The Academy: The First Riddle is an Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2020, priced at $7.99, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (66% of 94 reviews).

66%
positive of 94 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)
The Academy: The First Riddle is a puzzle adventure game developed by Pine Studios and published by Snapbreak Games. It was developed in Croatia and released on June 19, 2020 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 41% of 28,945 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 94 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.59 at Steam (2025-07-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820202026Week of 2020-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$1.592020-06-192026-07-272020-06-19 — best price $17.992020-11-02 — best price $19.992020-12-22 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $19.992021-07-08 — best price $9.992021-11-01 — best price $5.992021-12-22 — best price $1.792022-07-07 — best price $5.992022-12-12 — best price $4.192023-01-05 — best price $5.992023-03-16 — best price $4.012023-05-01 — best price $5.992023-06-30 — best price $1.972023-07-24 — best price $5.992023-10-06 — best price $7.992023-12-11 — best price $5.592024-01-04 — best price $7.992024-02-28 — best price $4.792024-03-21 — best price $7.992024-05-27 — best price $5.992024-07-11 — best price $7.992024-09-02 — best price $4.792024-10-30 — best price $7.992024-12-09 — best price $3.992025-01-02 — best price $7.992025-03-03 — best price $2.392025-03-20 — best price $7.992025-05-26 — best price $2.392025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-08-25 — best price $1.992025-10-06 — best price $7.992025-12-01 — best price $1.592026-01-05 — best price $7.992026-02-23 — best price $2.392026-03-26 — best price $7.992026-06-08 — best price $5.592026-07-09 — best price $7.992026-07-27 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-06-04 — 4 pageviews2026-06-08 — 0 pageviews2026-06-12 — 1 pageviews2026-06-16 — 7 pageviews2026-06-20 — 2 pageviews2026-06-24 — 4 pageviews2026-06-28 — 5 pageviews2026-07-02 — 3 pageviews2026-07-06 — 9 pageviews2026-07-10 — 0 pageviews2026-07-14 — 3 pageviews2026-07-18 — 4 pageviews2026-07-22 — 3 pageviews2026-07-26 — 1 pageviews2026-07-30 — 5 pageviews2026-08-03 — 3 pageviews2026-08-07 — 4 pageviews2026-08-11 — 6 pageviews2026-08-15 — 4 pageviews2026-08-19 — 3 pageviews2026-08-23 — 6 pageviews2026-08-27 — 2 pageviews2026-08-31 — 1 pageviews2026-09-04 — 7 pageviews2026-09-08 — 8 pageviews2026-09-12 — 5 pageviews2026-09-16 — 1 pageviews2026-09-20 — 4 pageviews2026-09-24 — 5 pageviews2026-09-28 — 6 pageviews2026-10-02 — 4 pageviews2026-10-06 — 5 pageviews2026-10-10 — 4 pageviews2026-10-13 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-06-19 (Steam store data)

Player tags

CasualPuzzleMysteryRelaxingAdventureBeautifulStory RichConversationSingleplayerThird Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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