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The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom cover art

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

The Odd Gentlemen · 2K · 2010-04-20

SteamXboxMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 20, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 17, 2010 (Xbox 360)

Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!

0
playing now
88%
positive of 465 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
8h
to beat · rushed 3.5h · completionist 11h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is a puzzle-platform game for Xbox Live Arcade and Windows PC developed by The Odd Gentlemen. Reviews praised its unique puzzle mechanics, comparing them to the likes of Portal and Braid. It was released for the Xbox 360 on February 17, 2010. It was originally a student's graduate thesis at the University of Southern California. It was published by 2K Play. The Windows version was released exclusively via Steam on April 20, 2010.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 42% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–37k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 465 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 Steam (2023-03-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 14 of 15 observed days · $9.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.242015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.242015-09-07 — best price $4.992016-01-04 — best price $4.992016-07-04 — best price $4.992017-03-20 — best price $4.992017-08-22 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-04-01 — best price $4.992018-11-06 — best price $1.242019-02-04 — best price $1.242019-07-30 — best price $1.242019-12-03 — best price $4.992020-01-14 — best price $3.892020-02-10 — best price $5.452020-03-12 — best price $1.242020-05-12 — best price $4.392020-11-25 — best price $1.242021-05-02 — best price $4.252021-11-24 — best price $1.242022-02-03 — best price $1.242022-03-12 — best price $3.902022-06-10 — best price $1.242022-07-15 — best price $1.242022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-01-13 — best price $4.512023-03-31 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $2.742024-03-14 — best price $2.492024-04-08 — best price $4.812024-06-27 — best price $2.492024-08-19 — best price $4.812025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992026-04-09 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2322026-06-01 — 3 pageviews2026-06-04 — 9 pageviews2026-06-07 — 6 pageviews2026-06-10 — 4 pageviews2026-06-13 — 11 pageviews2026-06-16 — 23 pageviews2026-06-19 — 8 pageviews2026-06-22 — 11 pageviews2026-06-25 — 8 pageviews2026-06-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-01 — 6 pageviews2026-07-04 — 11 pageviews2026-07-07 — 13 pageviews2026-07-10 — 11 pageviews2026-07-13 — 7 pageviews2026-07-16 — 8 pageviews2026-07-19 — 8 pageviews2026-07-22 — 15 pageviews2026-07-25 — 9 pageviews2026-07-28 — 8 pageviews2026-07-31 — 6 pageviews2026-08-03 — 8 pageviews2026-08-06 — 11 pageviews2026-08-09 — 11 pageviews2026-08-12 — 14 pageviews2026-08-15 — 7 pageviews2026-08-18 — 4 pageviews2026-08-21 — 10 pageviews2026-08-24 — 4 pageviews2026-08-27 — 5 pageviews2026-08-29 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8,5793%12
Xbox 360 (Xbox)6,08014%12

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

Player tags

2DIndieComedyPuzzleAdventurePlatformerSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackPuzzle-PlatformerTime Manipulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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