What will be true about Animal Well, the first game published by Bigmode, videogamedunkey's company?
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YES
It will get a Metascore of 75 or more
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YES
It will get a Metascore of 80 or more
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YES
It will be rated Mighty on OpenCritic (90th or above percentile)
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YES
By the end of May, it will have over 5000 reviews on Steam
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YES
It will get a Metascore of 90 or more
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YES
It will get a Metascore of 85 or more
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YES
By the end of May, it will have over 2000 reviews on Steam
Resolved
YES
It will get a Metascore of 70 or more
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NO
It will get a Metascore of 95 or more
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NO
Its Metascore will be between Halo 2 and Halo 3 (94 or 95)
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NO
By the end of May, it will have over 100k reviews on Steam
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NO
By the end of May, it will have over 25k reviews on Steam
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NO
By the end of May, it will have over 50k reviews on Steam
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NO
By the end of May, it will have over 10k reviews on Steam
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YES
At the end of May, Steam will list its overall reviews as "Overwhelmingly Positive" (at least 95% positive)
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YES
At the end of May, Steam will list its overall reviews as "Very Positive" or better (at least 80% positive)
Resolved
YES
At the end of May, Steam will list its overall reviews as "Mostly Positive" or better (at least 70% positive)
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NO
It will peak at a concurrent playercount on Steam above 50k in its first month
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NO
It will peak at a concurrent playercount on Steam above 200k in its first month
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NO
It will peak at a concurrent playercount on Steam above 75k in its first month

Animal Well is a game developed by a solo developer, Billy Basso. It is also the first game that YouTuber videogamedunkey or dunkey is publishing with his company, Bigmode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Well
https://www.animalwell.net/
https://bigmode.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@videogamedunkey

For the questions about Steam best-selling games, we will be referring to the 2024 version of this page for resolution: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BestOf2023 "At least" bronze means either bronze, silver, gold, or platinum, and "At least" silver means silver, gold, or platinum, etc.

For the Yahtzee Croshaw questions, we will be referring to the 2024 version of this video for resolution when it is published: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXktE2ms9A

Examples of official sources for the sales announcements:
https://twitter.com/BIGMODEgames
https://twitter.com/vgdunkey
https://twitter.com/Billy_Basso
So long as an official source announces a particular number of sales, all answers referencing sales numbers below that number will resolve YES. The announcement itself has to happen before the end of 2024.

Metascore is determined by Metacritic: https://www.metacritic.com/game/

Mighty designation is determined by OpenCritic: https://opencritic.com/

Scores for resolutions will be checked after a week after release.


The Game Awards 2024 is being held on 12 December, 2024: https://thegameawards.com/

Steam concurrent player counts are tracked by Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed and recorded by places like Steamcharts: https://steamcharts.com/ and Steamdb: https://steamdb.info/charts/

The Steam Awards are held by Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards


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