the whale husband

Profile updated Aug 2026

the whale husband is the developer behind Bucket Detective, with 1 title on Steam and 226 total reviews. Listed on indielist with a catalog led by Bucket Detective, the whale husband games fall under Adventure, placing it among Adventure developers.

the whale husband is an indie game studio. indielist tracks 1 title by the whale husband, together holding 226 Steam reviews. Its most-reviewed game is Bucket Detective, which holds 226 Steam reviews (2017). Across its catalog the studio has worked with 1 publisher, including the whale husband. indielist tracks releases from the whale husband starting in 2017. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so players can find more titles from the same team, developers can compare portfolios and team sizes against peers, and investors can trace which publishers and genres the studio works across. Where Steam review data is available, indielist also publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate for each of the studio's games, showing the full Boxleiter factor breakdown rather than a single black-box number, so the commercial picture behind the whale husband can be audited rather than taken on trust.

On the business side, the whale husband has shipped with 1 publisher (the whale husband), and indielist maps each of those relationships as an edge in its studio-to-publisher-to-game graph. That matters to two audiences in particular: an investor can trace which labels have backed this studio and how that roster has changed over time, while a developer can see which publishers are already comfortable signing work in the studio's genres before deciding where to send a pitch. This is the kind of sourcing intelligence that is slow and tedious to reconstruct from Steam store pages alone, because the storefront never exposes who introduced whom. Each linked publisher page in turn lists its full roster, deal tier, and current submission status, so the network around the whale husband can be walked outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list.