A Butterfly

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A Butterfly

Short description

The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner. A Butterfly is part horror, part interactive poem about overcoming and bittersweet surrender

Developer
alienmelon
Publisher
alienmelon
Release
Thu, Jan 23, 2025
Price
$0.99
Reviews
45
Positive
98%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
0 – 20K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Adventure, Indie
Tags
Interactive Fiction Exploration Horror Open World Surreal Atmospheric Philosophical Emotional 3D Psychedelic Walking Simulator Flight Abstract Cinematic Colorful First-Person Adventure Third Person Dark Psychological Horror
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$2ksomewhere between $891 and $4k · roughly 900–4K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $0.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

2 data points since Jul 31, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$2k → ~$2k
Reviews 43 → 45
Price $0.99 → $0.99
Positive reviews 97.7% → 97.8%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

Lowest recorded price: $0.99 on Jul 31, 2026. That is the current price.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around A Butterfly is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Interactive Fiction + Exploration + Horror

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