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Where the Bees Make Honey cover art

Where the Bees Make Honey

Brian Wilson · Whitethorn Games · 2019-03-26

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AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 17, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 26, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 26, 2019 (Xbox One), Mar 26, 2019 (PlayStation 4)

Where the Bees Make Honey tells a story about reflecting on different moments from a childhood, which are played and experienced from an adult perspective. At its core Where The Bees Make Honey is a narrative puzzle adventure game, with playable childhood moments filtered throughout.

36%
positive of 77 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
10/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
40/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
2.51★
PlayStation Store rating (78 ratings)
$9.99
steam price (US)
Where the Bees Make Honey is a 2019 video game developed by Whitethorn Digital and published by Wakefield Interactive. It is a narrative puzzle video game in which players re-enact the childhood memories of Sunny, an office worker. The game is the debut of independent developer Brian Wilson. Following release, the game received generally unfavorable reviews, although was nominated for the Nuovo Award, at the 2019 Independent Games Festival.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 56% of 18,640 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 77 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2020-03-26) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 93 of 140 observed days · $9.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320192026Week of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.982019-03-272026-09-212019-03-27 — best price $9.992020-05-05 — best price $2.492021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-11-28 — best price $3.702022-01-02 — best price $7.862022-02-18 — best price $8.892022-06-23 — best price $1.492022-08-16 — best price $7.892022-09-24 — best price $7.862022-12-01 — best price $9.992023-01-23 — best price $1.992023-04-05 — best price $2.492023-05-09 — best price $2.492023-06-26 — best price $9.992023-08-08 — best price $2.492023-11-14 — best price $1.492024-01-11 — best price $1.882024-03-04 — best price $1.752024-04-18 — best price $2.492024-06-20 — best price $2.002024-07-31 — best price $9.992024-09-14 — best price $9.992024-10-22 — best price $9.992024-12-05 — best price $0.982025-02-13 — best price $0.992025-04-12 — best price $0.992025-05-28 — best price $9.992025-07-28 — best price $9.992025-09-17 — best price $1.492025-11-11 — best price $7.892025-12-17 — best price $1.692026-01-17 — best price $7.862026-02-22 — best price $9.992026-04-01 — best price $7.892026-05-08 — best price $9.992026-06-15 — best price $8.012026-08-01 — best price $1.852026-09-09 — best price $1.092026-09-21 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1602026-06-23 — 0 pageviews2026-06-26 — 7 pageviews2026-06-29 — 1 pageviews2026-07-02 — 1 pageviews2026-07-06 — 0 pageviews2026-07-10 — 2 pageviews2026-07-13 — 2 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1 pageviews2026-07-19 — 0 pageviews2026-07-23 — 1 pageviews2026-07-26 — 2 pageviews2026-07-29 — 0 pageviews2026-08-01 — 2 pageviews2026-08-05 — 0 pageviews2026-08-08 — 1 pageviews2026-08-11 — 1 pageviews2026-08-16 — 2 pageviews2026-08-20 — 1 pageviews2026-08-23 — 1 pageviews2026-08-26 — 1 pageviews2026-08-30 — 1 pageviews2026-09-02 — 1 pageviews2026-09-05 — 3 pageviews2026-09-08 — 1 pageviews2026-09-12 — 1 pageviews2026-09-16 — 1 pageviews2026-09-19 — 3 pageviews2026-09-20 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Player tags

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Census log

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

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