What will be true about Animal Well, the first game published by Bigmode, videogamedunkey's company?

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2025

75%

It will be announced by an official source that the game sold at least 500k copies before the end of 2024

30%

It will be announced by an official source that the game sold at least 1 million copies before the end of 2024

29%

It will be at least a Bronze best-selling game on Steam for 2024

11%

It will be at least a Silver best-selling game on Steam for 2024

It will be at least a Gold best-selling game on Steam for 2024

It will be a Platinum best-selling game on Steam for 2024

37%

Yahtzee Croshaw will have it in his top 5 best games of the year

Yahtzee Croshaw will have it in his top 5 worst games of the year

Yahtzee Croshaw will have it in his top 5 blandest games of the year

30%

It will be put on Xbox Game Pass before the end of the year

It will be given away for free on the Epic Games Store before the end of the year

38%

A hololive vtuber will stream the game before the end of the year

Destiny will stream the game before the end of the year

37%

It will be released for Mac before the end of the year

31%

It will be released for Linux before the end of the year

92%

It will be nominated at the Game Developers Choice Awards for Best Debut

29%

It will win the award for Best Debut at the Game Developers Choice Awards

you can pet a dog (or dog-like substitute creature!)

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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bought Ṁ223 YES

@Marnix It won the award for solo development

opened a Ṁ100 NO at 4% order

@strutheo I played most of it and I don't recall any petting-type gameplay

bought Ṁ20 NO

@Tripping Hololive is a specific company, right?

@TiredCliche yes

bought Ṁ15 YES

The Indie Game Awards will be held on December 19th. Animal Well is nominated for Best Debut Indie Game and Game of the Year. https://www.indiegameawards.gg/

bought Ṁ415 NO

@Tripping Resolves NO, lost Debut Indie which is one of its two categories.

bought Ṁ359 YES

@Tripping This can resolve YES

bought Ṁ675 YES

@Tripping Resolves YES, along with of course the it will be nominated for at least one award question. Animal Well was nominated for Best Independent Game and Best Debut Indie Game.

bought Ṁ396 NO

NO to 10k reviews by end of may

bought Ṁ210 YES

@strutheo also the overwhelming positive review

Just to justify this answer, videogamedunkey has facetiously called Animal Well "a mix between Halo 2 and Halo 3" and his fans have run with it. Its not spam I promise 🙏

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