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Cauldron

SleepyDad Games · Caketown Interactive · 2025-05-21

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 21, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 29, 2025 (Nintendo Switch)

Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then win battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!

Cauldron is an Adventure, Casual, Indie and RPG game released in 2025, priced at $14.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 1709 reviews).

122
playing now
93%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

122 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 21:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 122 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 58 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (241 reviews).
  • · Top 10% of 29,063 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 35k–79k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,762 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.94 at Steam (2026-09-02)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 51 of 77 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
23123120252026Week of 2025-05-21: 231 positiveWeek of 2025-05-21: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-05-28: 208 positiveWeek of 2025-05-28: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-04: 101 positiveWeek of 2025-06-04: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-06-11: 75 positiveWeek of 2025-06-11: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-18: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-06-18: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-25: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-06-25: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-02: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-07-02: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-09: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-07-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-16: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-07-23: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-07-30: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-07-30: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-06: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-08-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-13: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-08-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-20: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-27: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-27: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-03: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-10: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-17: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-24: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-08: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-15: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-22: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-05: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-11-05: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-12: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-11-12: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-19: 82 positiveWeek of 2025-11-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-26: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-11-26: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-03: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-10: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-17: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-24: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-31: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-07: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-01-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-14: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-01-14: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-21: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-21: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-28: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-04: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-11: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-18: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-25: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-04: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-04: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-11: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-11: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-18: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-25: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-08: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-22: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-29: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-13: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-27: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-03: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-10: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-17: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-24: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-08: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-15: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-22: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-05: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

213542026-09-15 22:00 — 182 players2026-09-17 06:00 — 124 players2026-09-18 14:00 — 163 players2026-09-19 21:00 — 137 players2026-09-21 05:00 — 97 players2026-09-22 12:00 — 98 players2026-09-23 20:00 — 96 players2026-09-25 03:00 — 75 players2026-09-26 11:00 — 81 players2026-09-27 18:00 — 100 players2026-09-29 02:00 — 70 players2026-09-30 09:00 — 54 players2026-10-01 17:00 — 75 players2026-10-03 00:00 — 110 players2026-10-04 08:00 — 191 players2026-10-05 16:00 — 152 players2026-10-07 00:00 — 125 players2026-10-08 07:00 — 140 players2026-10-09 15:00 — 184 players2026-10-10 22:00 — 163 players2026-10-12 06:00 — 183 players2026-10-13 13:00 — 191 players2026-10-14 21:00 — 122 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.6k57May 2025Aug 2026May 2025 — avg 2,605 · peak 3,834Jun 2025 — avg 1,106 · peak 3,166Jul 2025 — avg 426 · peak 825Aug 2025 — avg 249 · peak 478Sep 2025 — avg 118 · peak 216Oct 2025 — avg 121 · peak 257Nov 2025 — avg 255 · peak 424Dec 2025 — avg 162 · peak 272Jan 2026 — avg 212 · peak 377Feb 2026 — avg 119 · peak 210Mar 2026 — avg 78 · peak 166Apr 2026 — avg 88 · peak 149May 2026 — avg 82 · peak 195Jun 2026 — avg 88 · peak 173Jul 2026 — avg 100 · peak 147Aug 2026 — avg 57 · peak 139
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$6.192025-05-212026-09-282025-05-21 — best price $13.492025-07-05 — best price $14.992025-07-09 — best price $14.992025-08-07 — best price $11.992025-09-15 — best price $11.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-11-19 — best price $14.992025-11-26 — best price $14.992025-12-03 — best price $11.692025-12-08 — best price $14.992025-12-17 — best price $13.932026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-01-13 — best price $7.492026-02-13 — best price $7.492026-03-13 — best price $7.502026-04-05 — best price $11.692026-04-21 — best price $13.392026-04-28 — best price $7.502026-05-01 — best price $7.502026-05-04 — best price $7.502026-05-07 — best price $6.352026-05-11 — best price $11.692026-05-20 — best price $14.992026-05-23 — best price $7.502026-06-07 — best price $12.592026-06-26 — best price $6.652026-07-17 — best price $12.592026-07-22 — best price $7.502026-07-27 — best price $12.592026-08-10 — best price $7.492026-08-16 — best price $11.692026-09-28 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
99.5%
earned "So it Begins"
33.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCustom Volume ControlsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSave Anytime1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-06-25 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,74313%100
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteIdlerMagicRetroCasualFantasyColorfulAdventureMinigames

Census log

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

Recent updates

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