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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 · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

Cleo - a pirate's tale is an Adventure and Indie game released in 2021, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (98% of 805 reviews).

0
playing now
98%
positive of 805 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
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)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 21:00 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

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 35 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 28,914 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 16k–36k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 805 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$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 15 of 77 observed days · $13.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
959520212026Week of 2021-12-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 23:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 14:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 21:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.492021-12-122026-10-152021-12-12 — best price $13.492022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-05-09 — best price $5.992022-07-07 — best price $14.992022-08-22 — best price $5.242022-10-27 — best price $4.492022-11-29 — best price $14.992023-01-20 — best price $7.492023-02-21 — best price $14.992023-04-17 — best price $5.242023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-10-02 — best price $2.242024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-03-04 — best price $4.492024-04-04 — best price $2.242024-06-03 — best price $14.992024-11-26 — best price $2.992025-02-03 — best price $4.492025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-08-07 — best price $3.442025-09-08 — best price $14.992025-11-06 — best price $2.992026-01-11 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $5.992026-05-18 — best price $14.992026-06-17 — best price $2.252026-08-24 — best price $14.992026-09-01 — best price $14.992026-09-06 — best price $14.992026-09-11 — best price $14.992026-09-16 — best price $14.992026-09-21 — best price $14.992026-09-26 — best price $14.992026-10-01 — best price $14.992026-10-06 — best price $14.992026-10-11 — best price $14.992026-10-15 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
48.4%
earned "THE LISTENER"
15.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-12-12 (Steam store data)

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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Similarity via IGDB.

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