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Amphora cover art

Amphora

Moondrop · 2014-11-12

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 12, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 12, 2014 (Mac)

Amphora is a peculiar puzzle game that mixes story elements and physics. Amphora presents you with an unfamiliar world with a striking visual style inspired by all the shadow theatre traditions and colors of the world.

79%
positive of 217 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.39
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 114% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 30% of 25,804 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.4k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 217 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.39-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.39 at Steam (2025-09-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $13.99 · on sale 4 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720142026Week of 2014-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$13.99$1.392015-01-012026-10-012015-01-01 — best price $11.892015-06-29 — best price $10.492015-11-25 — best price $6.992016-01-15 — best price $6.992016-05-10 — best price $6.992016-09-08 — best price $5.592016-11-29 — best price $13.992017-01-26 — best price $13.992017-07-05 — best price $13.992017-11-01 — best price $13.992017-12-21 — best price $3.492018-02-15 — best price $3.492018-06-21 — best price $3.492018-10-30 — best price $3.492018-11-19 — best price $13.992018-12-21 — best price $3.492019-02-04 — best price $3.492019-06-26 — best price $4.192019-08-29 — best price $3.492019-11-21 — best price $3.492020-01-02 — best price $13.992020-01-23 — best price $13.992020-07-09 — best price $13.992020-11-02 — best price $13.992020-12-22 — best price $2.792021-04-30 — best price $2.792021-11-19 — best price $2.792022-05-06 — best price $2.792022-11-18 — best price $2.092025-09-29 — best price $1.392026-05-11 — best price $1.392026-10-01 — best price $1.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
28.7%
earned "Fin"
15.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Japanese, Russian, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)28752%7

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

Player tags

2DCuteIndiePuzzleColorfulStylizedAdventureAtmosphericSingleplayerGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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