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Éalú cover art

Éalú

Beyond the Bark · 2025-10-02

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 02, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A cozy, handmade stop-motion adventure... unless the maze takes a darker turn... Guide your wooden mouse through a labyrinth full of puzzles & unknown dangers in search of an exit to a happier place.

Éalú is a 2025 Adventure, Casual, and Indie game priced at $7.49, with a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 284 reviews).

94%
positive of 289 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.49
steam price (US)
Éalú is a point-and-click stop motion adventure game created by Limerick, Ireland-based indie game studio Beyond The Bark. It is a spiritual successor to the song "Tomcat Disposables", taken from the 2022 album "In case I make it," composed by American singer-songwriter Will Wood. The game was released for Windows on October 2, 2025.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (125 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.8k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 289 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $6.74 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 15 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12012020252026Week of 2025-10-02: 120 positiveWeek of 2025-10-02: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-09: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-10-16: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-23: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-25: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$0.002021-03-272026-08-172021-03-27 — best price $0.002025-10-02 — best price $19.992025-10-09 — best price $24.992025-11-10 — best price $19.992025-11-17 — best price $24.992025-12-18 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-01-19 — best price $19.992026-02-02 — best price $9.992026-02-09 — best price $19.992026-03-13 — best price $11.992026-03-19 — best price $12.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-03-28 — best price $14.992026-05-28 — best price $8.992026-06-04 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $6.742026-07-09 — best price $14.992026-08-10 — best price $7.492026-08-17 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3382026-06-01 — 21 pageviews2026-06-05 — 17 pageviews2026-06-09 — 10 pageviews2026-06-13 — 20 pageviews2026-06-17 — 16 pageviews2026-06-21 — 21 pageviews2026-06-25 — 15 pageviews2026-06-29 — 28 pageviews2026-07-03 — 20 pageviews2026-07-07 — 17 pageviews2026-07-11 — 14 pageviews2026-07-15 — 17 pageviews2026-07-19 — 18 pageviews2026-07-23 — 14 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 20 pageviews2026-08-04 — 13 pageviews2026-08-08 — 16 pageviews2026-08-12 — 12 pageviews2026-08-16 — 24 pageviews2026-08-20 — 21 pageviews2026-08-24 — 21 pageviews2026-08-28 — 21 pageviews2026-09-01 — 12 pageviews2026-09-05 — 13 pageviews2026-09-09 — 13 pageviews2026-09-13 — 15 pageviews2026-09-17 — 20 pageviews2026-09-21 — 17 pageviews2026-09-25 — 12 pageviews2026-09-29 — 23 pageviews2026-10-03 — 29 pageviews2026-10-07 — 22 pageviews2026-10-11 — 22 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

6
achievements tracked
34.6%
earned "Ídigh"
19.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsColor AlternativesMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5332%6

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

Census log

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

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