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Cleo - a pirate's tale cover art

Cleo - a pirate's tale

Christoph Schultz · 2021-12-12

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 12, 2021 (Mac), Dec 12, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 20, 2022 (Nintendo Switch)

Cleo is a solo-developed, top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.

0
playing now
98%
positive of 803 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
4h
to beat · rushed 3h · completionist 8h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Cleo is a 14-year-old cynical girl, living a repetitive life with her father in a bar. She knows everything about the epic adventures of pirate legend Captain Cabeca, but in her everyday life, she is just surrounded by boring fishermen and unsuccessful pirates, hanging around at the counter. But when Cleo finds a strange pirate-logbook and sees a ghost, who gives her mysterious hints, her boring life is about to get turned upside down. She is thrown into a dangerous adventure and finds herself in a world of lies, deceive, greed and bad breath - the world of pirates - and most of them are afte(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 33% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–36k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 803 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$14.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2023-11-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 17 of 35 observed days · $13.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-12 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 19:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.492021-12-122026-08-302021-12-12 — best price $13.492022-01-27 — best price $10.492022-04-04 — best price $7.492022-06-06 — best price $7.492022-07-18 — best price $8.242022-08-22 — best price $5.242022-10-17 — best price $4.492022-11-16 — best price $3.742022-12-12 — best price $2.992023-01-30 — best price $7.492023-02-21 — best price $14.992023-04-04 — best price $14.992023-06-05 — best price $14.992023-07-25 — best price $14.992023-10-09 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-02-22 — best price $14.992024-03-20 — best price $2.242024-04-15 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $1.492024-11-26 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-08 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-08-15 — best price $14.992025-09-08 — best price $14.992025-10-27 — best price $14.992025-12-11 — best price $2.992026-02-04 — best price $14.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-05-18 — best price $14.992026-06-15 — best price $14.992026-08-14 — best price $2.252026-08-29 — best price $14.992026-08-30 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)40723%24
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyRetro1990'sComedyLinearPiratesColorfulAdventure

Census log

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

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