Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse overview

Telltale Games | May 23, 2010 | game

Released

0players observed · observation time unavailable

Latest observed playersNot available
SteamPulse tracked peakNot available
Units sold (VGI)No data available
Revenue (VGI)No data available
Review score90% positive

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse dated player observations, monthly player trends, reviews, and game metadata are tracked on SteamPulse.

Latest observed playersNot available
SteamPulse tracked peakNot available
Units sold (VGI)No data available
Revenue (VGI)No data available
Review score90% positive
Total reviews512
Release dateMay 23, 2010
DeveloperTelltale Games
PublisherTelltale Games

Genres: Adventure

Company pages: Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games

No longer available on Steam Store. This app is no longer available for purchase on the Steam Store. SteamPulse keeps live player counts, media, metadata, and historical price snapshots where available.

Top Steam charts Top 100 games Game directoryNo current Steam Store offer

Game overview

Overview

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse comes from Telltale Games and is published by Telltale Games. It arrived on Steam on May 23, 2010, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and macOS so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at observation time unavailable, with a tracked peak near 0. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 90% positive across 512 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse is available in 1 languages including:

English

4 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, oflc, and nzoflc

Platform	Type	OS	Processor	Memory	Graphics	Storage
Windows	Minimum	Not listed	2.0 GHz (3 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent rec.)	1 GB	128MB DirectX 8.1-compliant video card (128MB rec.) DirectX®: Version 9.0c or better Hard Drive: 2.7 GB Sound: DirectX 8.1 sound device	Not listed
macOS	Minimum	Mac OS X 10.5 or later	Intel Core 2 Duo	256MB of RAM	Not Recommended For: Macs with integrated graphics	Not listed

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has 289 Steam recommendations. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Detailed game overview

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse overview details

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

5 Games, 1 Price! Delivered monthly Wield psychic powers against fearsome foes in epic comedy saga over 5 monthly episodes An otherworldy power for controlling matter and space calls to the strongest and strangest who might wield it -- intergalactic warlords and eldritch gods, under-dwellers and scholars of the arcane. Gaming's greatest dog and rabbit sleuths Sam & Max seek the power’s ancient secrets, as manic Max gains shape shifting, teleportation, mind reading and future vision abilities for battling these foes. The saga plays out in a surreal 5 month-long symphony of mayhem that gets deeper and more twisted with each episode. Episode 1: The Penal Zone - Now Available! Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak - Now Available! Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain! - Now Available! Episode 4: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls - Now Available! Episode 5: The City That Dares Not Sleep - Finale! Key Features Wield psychic powers against fearsome villains: shape shifting, teleportation, mind reading and future vision. Sam & Max’s biggest, boldest, most bizarre and best-looking series yet Epic comedy saga across 5 monthly episodes

SteamPulse editorial summary

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse is listed as a game with No longer available on Steam Store. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at observation time unavailable, a tracked peak of 0, and 90% positive reviews.

Overview facts

Field	Value
Game	Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse
Steam App ID	901399
Type	game
Release date	May 23, 2010
Developer	Telltale Games
Publisher	Telltale Games
Price	No longer available on Steam Store
Platforms	Windows and macOS
Genres	Adventure
Categories	Single-player, Family Sharing
Supported languages	English
Website	Official website

Player and review overview

Metric	Value
Latest observed players	0 · observation time unavailable
SteamPulse tracked peak	0
Positive reviews	462
Negative reviews	50
Total reviews	512
Positive percent	90%
Review type	Very Positive
Recommendations	289
Average playtime	Not available

SteamPulse record freshness

Field	Value
Steam release date	May 23, 2010
Official Steam feed update (UTC)	Not available
SteamPulse last record update (UTC)	12 August 2026 - 01:00:26 UTC
Live player count updated (UTC)	Not available
Store metadata updated (UTC)	12 August 2026 - 01:00:26 UTC

Support and legal notes

Field	Value
Support email	Not available
Support URL	Not available
Legal notice	© 2010 Telltale, Inc. Sam & Max created by Steve Purcell. Sam & Max copyright and trademark Steve Purcell.

References

Official and third-party reference links for checking this Steam app outside SteamPulse.

Reference	Link
SteamPulse canonical	https://steampulse.org/game/901399
Steam Community	https://steamcommunity.com/app/901399
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IGDB search	Search IGDB for Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse

Game FAQ

Real questions answered from SteamPulse data, including live players, monthly momentum, review sentiment, regional audience signals, Twitch activity, and current Steam pricing.

What is the latest observed Steam activity for Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse?

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse's latest SteamPulse observation records 0 players at observation time unavailable, with a tracked peak of 0 concurrent players in the available SteamPulse record. The tracked peak is the highest value stored by SteamPulse and may not cover activity from before tracking began.

Is Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse growing or declining recently?

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse does not have enough dated player-history points yet to calculate a reliable growth or decline percentage. Once SteamPulse has at least two tracked player-history points, this answer will compare the first available chart point with the latest tracked point.

What country-level audience data is available for Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse?

In the observed sample of public reviewer profiles with a visible country, the leading shares are United States (46.6%), United Kingdom (12.5%), Canada (9.1%). The separate directional player-region model assigns its leading shares to United States (39.6%), United Kingdom (10.5%), Canada (7.6%). The directional follower-region model assigns its leading shares to United States (49.1%), United Kingdom (10.3%), Canada (7.2%). The directional wishlist-region model assigns its leading shares to United States (33.4%), United Kingdom (9%), China (7.9%). Only the reviewer view is based on observed public profile countries; the other percentages are modeled relative weights, not verified account locations or country-level user counts.

What does the Steam review footprint look like for Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse?

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse currently sits at 90% positive across 512 Steam reviews tracked by SteamPulse, including 462 positive reviews and 50 negative reviews. Steam labels the current review summary as Very Positive.

How much follower and Twitch attention does Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse have?

On Twitch, SteamPulse is matching roughly 0 live viewers across 0 active streams for the game's category.

What is the current Steam price for Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse?

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse is currently listed at price not listed on Steam. SteamPulse uses the current store snapshot and historical price records to show whether the page is at full price or in a discounted window. Steam recommendations currently stand near 289, which helps add market context around that price.

Reviews, pricing, and metadata

Review summary

Very Positive

90% positive, 462 positive, 50 negative

Price and discount

No longer available on Steam Store

Platforms

Windows, Mac

Categories

Single-player, Family Sharing

Achievements

Not available

Platform releases

No data available

System requirements

Minimum requirements

OS *: Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 Processor: 2.0 GHz (3 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent rec.) Memory: 1 GB Graphics: 128MB DirectX 8.1-compliant video card (128MB rec.) DirectX®: Version 9.0c or better Hard Drive: 2.7 GB Sound: DirectX 8.1 sound device

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