The Trolley Solution

byDanDans · The Bueno Interactive · 2025-09-12

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 12, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Trolley Solution is a compilation of point-and-click minigames based on the famous thought experiment originally proposed by Philippa Foot.

The Trolley Solution is an Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2025, priced at $9.99, with Mostly Positive sentiment (77% of 604 reviews).

77%

positive of 615 reviews

Mostly Positive

steam's rating (official)

platinum

deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)

Playable

Steam Deck (Valve)

SteamOS: Playable

$9.99

steam price (US)

Once upon a time, humans got bored and invented philosophy. Fast forward about 2,000 years, and philosopher Philippa Foot published "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect." Not long after, the trolley problem became a meme. Now, you're playing a game based on that meme. That's the story. Oh, and the game is about finding a solution to the problem via a bunch of minigames.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active

· 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
· Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
· Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (241 reviews).
· Top 19% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Estimated sales: 12k–28k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 615 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2026-04-24) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 8 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative

Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

achievements tracked

81.5%

earned "Utilitarianism"

9.6%

median achievement earned by

· 81.5% of players earned Utilitarianism
· 9.6% of players earned Epistemology
· 3.9% of players earned True Utilitarian

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsColor Alternatives#category_contrast_controlsCustom Volume ControlsMouse Only OptionSteam Input API SupportStereo Sound2 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2025-09-12, latest 2026-04-24 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

Platform	Players tracked	Completion	Trophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)	685	13%	13

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

Census log

2025-09-12First review activity on record (week of 2025-09-12).
2025-09-12Biggest review week on record: 241 reviews (week of 2025-09-12).

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

Recent updates

2026-07-20CONTROLLER SUPPORT - NOW AVAILABLE
2026-04-30Whoops!
2026-04-24New DLC Out Now!!

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Similarity via IGDB.

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