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To Be or Not To Be cover art

To Be or Not To Be

Tin Man Games · 2015-02-04

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jan 12, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 18, 2015 (iOS), Feb 04, 2015 (Linux), Feb 04, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 17, 2015 (Android), Feb 04, 2015 (Mac)

Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!

90%
positive of 302 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 17,648 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.5k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 302 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.85 at GameBillet (2025-11-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 73 of 98 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620152026Week of 2015-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$0.852015-02-052026-09-042015-02-05 — best price $11.992016-01-04 — best price $11.992016-12-22 — best price $2.492017-12-21 — best price $1.992018-09-24 — best price $3.492018-12-20 — best price $1.992019-06-10 — best price $1.992019-11-26 — best price $1.742020-03-06 — best price $4.992020-11-13 — best price $4.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-10-10 — best price $4.992023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-02-07 — best price $2.492023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-06-11 — best price $4.992023-06-29 — best price $2.492023-08-07 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-02-20 — best price $2.502024-03-17 — best price $2.502024-03-31 — best price $4.992024-09-16 — best price $2.492025-01-23 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-09-28 — best price $1.642025-10-27 — best price $4.992025-11-11 — best price $1.132025-12-08 — best price $1.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-09 — best price $1.042026-04-02 — best price $4.192026-05-14 — best price $0.892026-06-01 — best price $4.192026-06-12 — best price $1.252026-07-11 — best price $1.252026-08-01 — best price $4.942026-09-04 — best price $4.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

33
achievements tracked
71%
earned "To Be She"
12%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,33419%46
Steam (Steam)1,00417%33
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

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

Player tags

FunnyIndieCasualComedyAdventureStory RichSingleplayerVisual NovelChoices MatterFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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