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Aeruta cover art

Aeruta

FromDawn Games · GRAVITY GAME ARISE Co., Ltd. · 2025-11-05

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: TBD (Nintendo Switch), May 15, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A bread revolution across the world now begins! Aeruta is a side-scrolling action game with a shop management twist, fight monsters for materials and use them to make breads, then finally make the deserted town popular again!

Aeruta is an Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2025, priced at $14.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 2500 reviews).

94%
positive of 2.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

The bread smell once disappeared...... Now returns! This is a world of lost delicacies. Until one day, in the corner of the world, an accidental explosion triggered by the main character Chaia, who was forced to stay in a rundown town where she is unfamiliar with the little store owner Effie to rebulid her bakery. And the good smell from the insignificant oven is - the almost lost delicious food, Bread!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 799 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~100/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 27,780 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 50k–113k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,500 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2024-11-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
94794720242026Week of 2024-05-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 947 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$11.992024-05-162026-08-132024-05-16 — best price $13.492024-05-22 — best price $14.992024-11-20 — best price $11.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $13.492025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-01-21 — best price $13.492025-01-26 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $13.492025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-04-24 — best price $13.492025-05-08 — best price $14.992025-06-27 — best price $13.492025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-07-16 — best price $13.492025-07-22 — best price $14.992025-09-18 — best price $13.492025-09-29 — best price $13.492025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-11-05 — best price $11.992025-11-13 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $15.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-12 — best price $15.992026-02-26 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $14.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-05-18 — best price $14.992026-05-27 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $13.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-03 — best price $14.992026-08-13 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
80.1%
earned "Change of Plans"
40%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-12-04 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)42817%65

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGAnimeIndieCasualCookingRelaxingAdventureManagementSimulationEarly Access

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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