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Dap cover art

Dap

Melting Parrot · 2021-09-29

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 29, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Dap is a horror-action-adventure about gathering and protecting a pack of fragile creatures called Daps. Lead your Daps to safety through an eerily beautiful world, fighting off threats, solving puzzles, and avoiding the infection that twists your companions into something alien and terrifying…

94%
positive of 158 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$13.99
steam price (US)

In Dap, you must guide a group of tiny ‘Daps’ through a hostile and corrupted world. Something incomprehensible has descended onto the forest and existence is now a fight for survival. The more Daps you gather, the stronger the pack will become, but be warned: Daps are not immune to infection. Neither are you.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (28 reviews).
  • · Top 43% of 18,678 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.2k–7.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 158 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.39 at Steam (2025-04-06) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $13.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720212026Week of 2021-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$13.99$1.392021-09-292026-07-092021-09-29 — best price $11.192021-11-24 — best price $11.892021-12-22 — best price $10.492022-03-11 — best price $9.792022-05-09 — best price $13.992022-07-07 — best price $13.992022-11-01 — best price $13.992022-11-29 — best price $13.992023-01-05 — best price $13.992023-03-23 — best price $13.992023-07-13 — best price $13.992023-09-28 — best price $13.992023-11-28 — best price $13.992024-01-04 — best price $13.992024-03-21 — best price $13.992024-05-13 — best price $13.992024-07-11 — best price $13.992024-11-04 — best price $13.992025-01-02 — best price $13.992025-04-13 — best price $13.992025-07-10 — best price $13.992025-10-06 — best price $13.992025-11-03 — best price $13.992026-01-05 — best price $13.992026-03-26 — best price $13.992026-05-04 — best price $13.992026-07-09 — best price $13.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
55.7%
earned "The First Tree"
11.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-10-29 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DCuteDarkActionCombatHorrorSurrealColorfulAdventureAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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