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Arctic Eggs

The Water Museum · CRITICAL REFLEX · 2024-05-16

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 16, 2024 (Mac), May 16, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 16, 2024 (Linux)

Eggs: perfection in two parts. The simple whites. The sublime yolk. Each the lesser without its partner. Chorus and verse. A symphony of flavor. The catchy tune reminding us of warm baths and late-night movies. The elevator music to whatever lies beyond.

22
playing now
96%
positive of 6.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
2h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

22 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Arctic Eggs is a 2024 single-player video game developed by The Water Museum and published by Critical Reflex. In it, the player assumes the role of a "Poultry Prepper" in late 21st century Antarctica. Having been caught trying to escape, the Poultry Prepper is sentenced to feed hungry people scattered around a fog-shrouded city.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 22 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 922 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~115/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 122k–274k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,084 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2025-09-15) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 22 of 44 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
78378320242026Week of 2024-05-01: 783 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 283 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 430 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 357 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2222026-08-07 00:00 — 9 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 13 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 11 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 6 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 9 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 8 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 16 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 13 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 14 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 17 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 16 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 9 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 14 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 9 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 14 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 22 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$4.992024-05-162026-08-172024-05-16 — best price $6.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-09-23 — best price $9.992024-10-09 — best price $9.992024-11-06 — best price $9.992024-11-18 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992024-12-14 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-01-18 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $6.992025-05-22 — best price $9.992025-09-15 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-10-28 — best price $6.992025-11-19 — best price $9.992025-12-11 — best price $4.992026-01-10 — best price $9.992026-01-27 — best price $4.992026-02-21 — best price $9.992026-03-12 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-25 — best price $9.992026-05-20 — best price $9.992026-06-12 — best price $5.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-05 — best price $9.992026-08-17 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

117292026-05-29 — 39 pageviews2026-06-01 — 58 pageviews2026-06-04 — 51 pageviews2026-06-07 — 93 pageviews2026-06-10 — 117 pageviews2026-06-13 — 42 pageviews2026-06-16 — 56 pageviews2026-06-19 — 55 pageviews2026-06-22 — 50 pageviews2026-06-25 — 36 pageviews2026-06-28 — 71 pageviews2026-07-01 — 64 pageviews2026-07-04 — 86 pageviews2026-07-07 — 54 pageviews2026-07-10 — 82 pageviews2026-07-13 — 49 pageviews2026-07-16 — 54 pageviews2026-07-19 — 45 pageviews2026-07-22 — 29 pageviews2026-07-25 — 38 pageviews2026-07-28 — 38 pageviews2026-07-31 — 29 pageviews2026-08-03 — 34 pageviews2026-08-06 — 44 pageviews2026-08-09 — 102 pageviews2026-08-12 — 43 pageviews2026-08-15 — 48 pageviews2026-08-18 — 50 pageviews2026-08-21 — 41 pageviews2026-08-24 — 40 pageviews2026-08-26 — 57 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
65.6%
earned "Feast in the Clouds"
40.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

16 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,47827%16

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

Player tags

CrimeFlightSci-fiCookingPhysicsSurrealCyberpunkLore-RichCapitalismOpen World

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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