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The Butterfly Collector

Wicky Yu · 2025-02-09

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 09, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

investigate the evidence left by a stalker and kidnapper and track the fate of a college girl. The player advances and watches the plot by clicking to make choices for the heroine at key moments, with different choices leading to different endings.

88%
positive of 956 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 34 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (126 reviews).
  • · Top 24% of 15,836 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–43k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 956 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2025-05-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
11711720252026Week of 2025-02-10: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-02-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-17: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-02-24: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-03-03: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-03-10: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-03-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-17: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-03-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-24: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-31: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-31: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-07: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-14: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-21: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-04-21: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-05: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-12: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-19: 106 positiveWeek of 2025-05-19: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-05-26: 117 positiveWeek of 2025-05-26: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-06-02: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-06-02: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-09: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-06-09: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-16: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-16: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-23: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-06-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-30: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-07: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-07-07: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-14: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-04: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-18: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-25: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-08-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-09-08: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-08: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-15: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-22: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-29: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-06: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-13: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-27: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-10: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-17: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-15: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-22: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-29: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-05: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-12: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-26: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-26: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-16: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-02: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-16: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-23: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-30: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-18: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-25: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-29: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-06: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-13: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-10: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-17: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-31: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-07: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.99$0.492025-02-102026-08-162025-02-10 — best price $0.592025-02-23 — best price $0.992025-03-13 — best price $0.592025-03-20 — best price $0.992025-05-19 — best price $0.492025-05-26 — best price $0.992025-06-27 — best price $0.592025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-08-29 — best price $0.492025-09-05 — best price $0.992025-09-29 — best price $0.492025-10-06 — best price $0.992025-10-30 — best price $0.592025-11-06 — best price $0.992025-12-18 — best price $0.492026-01-05 — best price $0.992026-02-16 — best price $0.592026-02-23 — best price $0.992026-03-19 — best price $0.492026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-05-06 — best price $0.492026-05-13 — best price $0.992026-06-25 — best price $0.492026-07-09 — best price $0.992026-08-09 — best price $0.592026-08-16 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
88.7%
earned "Prologue"
71%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10292%10

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

Player tags

GoreIndieHorrorViolentAdventureWord GameStory RichText-BasedFirst-PersonSingleplayer

Census log

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

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