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Among Ripples

Eat Create Sleep · 2015-01-22

Steam

CasualFree To PlayIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 22, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 22, 2015 (Linux), Jan 22, 2015 (Mac)

Control a pond's ecosystem; experiment with what you can do and see what happens. Among Ripples is a meditative ecosystem management simulator; you add different creatures to the pond and see how they interact.

Among Ripples is a 2015 Casual, Free To Play, Indie, and Simulation game priced at free-to-play, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (68% of 1445 reviews).

0
playing now
68%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
252520172026Week of 2017-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DIndieShortCasualNatureSandboxRelaxingSimulationUnderwaterAtmospheric

Census log

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

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