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The Puppy

Moldy&Abet Games · 2025-06-17

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 17, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It’s just one week of work: watching over a sweet baby in a quiet, cozy house. Don’t worry about my little dog, i love him, and he loves the baby. Seems like an easy job… until night falls.

The Puppy is a 2025 Adventure, Indie and Simulation game priced at $1.99, with a Mostly Positive sentiment based on 72% of 76 reviews.

73%
positive of 82 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 44% of 28,821 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 82 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2026-06-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 7 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320252026Week of 2025-06-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-17: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.99$0.992025-06-172026-08-172025-06-17 — best price $3.392025-06-24 — best price $3.992025-06-27 — best price $1.992025-07-27 — best price $1.492025-08-10 — best price $1.992025-09-10 — best price $1.592025-09-24 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $1.592025-10-06 — best price $1.992025-11-02 — best price $1.492025-11-16 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $1.592026-01-05 — best price $1.992026-02-12 — best price $1.492026-02-26 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $1.492026-03-26 — best price $1.992026-04-24 — best price $1.492026-05-08 — best price $1.992026-06-27 — best price $0.992026-07-11 — best price $1.992026-08-17 — best price $1.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMouse Only OptionTouch Only OptionFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil

Census log

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