Once Upon A Puppet
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Once Upon A Puppet is a singleplayer adventure indie game blending 3D platforming with an atmospheric, narrative focus. Released in 2025 by developer flatter-than-earth and publisher daedalic-entertainment, it has 101 Steam reviews with 86% positive feedback and an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
Once Upon A Puppet is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Flatter Than Earth and published by Daedalic Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 102 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Flatter Than Earth with publisher Daedalic Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4,000 to 9,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Once Upon A Puppet can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
102
Positive
85%
Steam appid
1904880
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 9K
units (median: 7K)
≈ $57K to $132K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_85% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 65 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Once Upon A Puppet at roughly 4,000 to 9,000 copies, with a median around 7,000, derived from its 102 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $95K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
12 observed days · window low $8.71Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-08-01 to 2026-10-17, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.71 to $10.00. The tracked-window low was $8.71 on 2026-08-01.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -60%$9.99 Buy
- GOG.com -60%$9.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$24.99 Buy
- Humble Store$24.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$25.28 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-10-17 05:30 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Tags
3D PlatformerAdventureAtmosphericSingleplayerNarrativeHorrorIndiePlatformerDark FantasyNarrationSide ScrollerPuzzle-PlatformerControllerCutePuzzle2.5DEmotionalLore-RichCasualFamily Friendly
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Once Upon A Puppet sold?
- indielist estimates Once Upon A Puppet has sold between 3,978 and 9,282 units (median 6,630), derived from its 102 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Once Upon A Puppet?
- Once Upon A Puppet was developed by Flatter Than Earth and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
- Who published Once Upon A Puppet?
- Once Upon A Puppet was published by Daedalic Entertainment, developed by Flatter Than Earth. See Daedalic Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Once Upon A Puppet released?
- Once Upon A Puppet was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Once Upon A Puppet have on Steam?
- Once Upon A Puppet has 102 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Once Upon A Puppet worth playing?
- Steam players rate Once Upon A Puppet 85% positive across 102 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Once Upon A Puppet can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as The Last Campfire, Planet of Lana, INSIDE, LIMBO, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Flatter Than Earth's other releases and Daedalic Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Once Upon A Puppet sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Once Upon A Puppet page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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