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Tumblebugs

Wildfire Studios · Atari · 2022-03-18

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 08, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 08, 2005 (Mac), 2009 (iOS)

Save your backyard buddies from rolling into the Black Bug Empire's underground lair. By launching colored bugs from your back with precise timing you can free more bugs with matching color, but you have to act fast and save them all before you run out of time.

92%
positive of 130 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
Tumblebugs is a fast-paced puzzle game developed by Wildfire Studios. It was released for a number of platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and WiiWare.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 25 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 18,744 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.6k–5.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 130 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2025-03-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

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

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CuteCasualPuzzleMatch 3PhysicsCartoonyColorfulScore AttackSingleplayerFamily Friendly

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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