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Canyon Capers cover art

Canyon Capers

CrazyMoo Games · Sunset Sugar Studios · 2014-04-25

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 25, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Canyon Capers is a retro style platform game brought right up to date, with tons of levels, modes, collectables and secrets.

Canyon Capers is an Action, Casual, Indie game released in 2014, priced at $6.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (45% of 1894 reviews).

0
playing now
45%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)

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

Starring DinoJr and his many friends as they venture through the canyons and caverns of ancient ruins in historical locations, to reach the ultimate goal, retrieval of the Golden Mollusk, source of all universal power and a mighty fine trophy at that.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 47k–114k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,894 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.69 at Steam (2015-03-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220162026Week of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3002026-09-14 22:00 — 30 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 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 — 1 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.692015-01-012025-06-022015-01-01 — best price $1.392015-03-30 — best price $6.992015-07-27 — best price $0.832015-12-01 — best price $6.992016-03-07 — best price $0.692016-07-04 — best price $6.992016-11-23 — best price $1.042017-01-02 — best price $6.992017-06-22 — best price $0.692017-10-16 — best price $6.992017-12-21 — best price $0.692018-04-09 — best price $6.992018-10-30 — best price $0.692019-01-03 — best price $6.992019-06-17 — best price $0.692019-07-22 — best price $6.992019-11-26 — best price $0.692020-01-27 — best price $6.992020-11-25 — best price $0.692021-02-15 — best price $6.992021-09-13 — best price $0.692021-12-01 — best price $6.992022-11-22 — best price $0.692023-01-05 — best price $6.992023-03-16 — best price $1.392023-05-29 — best price $6.992023-11-22 — best price $1.042024-01-22 — best price $6.992024-05-20 — best price $1.042024-12-04 — best price $6.992025-01-20 — best price $1.042025-03-20 — best price $6.992025-06-02 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
40.8%
earned "The easiest achievement you'll ever earn"
6.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Finnish, Korean, Russian, Swedish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2014-06-16 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)11,4283%30

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

Player tags

2DIndieRetroActionArcadeCasualPlatformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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