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Water Boiling Simulator

wolfyer · 2026-01-15

Steam

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 20, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 20, 2025 (Linux)

It's 2016. Explore through your house in the middle of the night and complete your chores before the water you put on the stove starts boiling. Sounds easy, right? If only you hadn't said things you would soon regret.

Water Boiling Simulator is a $1.50 Action, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2026, with a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 81 reviews).

95%
positive of 83 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.50
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 42% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.7k–3.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 83 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.90 at Steam (2026-05-04)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 9 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520262026Week of 2026-01-15: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-22: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-20: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$0.902026-01-152026-07-162026-01-15 — best price $1.792026-01-29 — best price $2.992026-02-12 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $1.992026-04-18 — best price $1.502026-05-04 — best price $0.902026-05-11 — best price $1.502026-06-25 — best price $0.902026-07-16 — best price $1.50
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportStereo SoundSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil

Census log

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

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