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Even the Ocean cover art

Even the Ocean

Melos Han-Tani · Analgesic Productions · 2016-11-16

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 16, 2016 (Mac), Aug 19, 2020 (Xbox One), Aug 19, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Aug 21, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 16, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A story-rich 2D platformer where you'll delve into dangerous power plants and massive creatures, while uncovering the truth of your world. Explore towns and cities, and help a world thrown out of balance!

86%
positive of 284 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
7h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Even the Ocean is an action-adventure platform video game developed by Analgesic Productions. The game was released on November 16, 2016 on Steam, itch.io, GOG.com, and Humble Store, for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 75% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 12,647 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.1k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 284 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at GOG (2021-12-13) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 63 of 100 observed days · $12.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420162026Week of 2016-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$2.992016-09-092026-09-062016-09-09 — best price $14.992017-06-22 — best price $11.242018-02-19 — best price $14.992018-10-30 — best price $7.492019-06-25 — best price $4.942020-01-27 — best price $14.992020-06-26 — best price $11.892020-08-01 — best price $13.392020-09-09 — best price $14.992020-10-19 — best price $11.142020-11-28 — best price $11.242021-01-07 — best price $14.992021-03-04 — best price $14.992021-04-26 — best price $12.632021-06-30 — best price $14.992021-10-29 — best price $11.012022-02-14 — best price $4.492022-06-28 — best price $14.992022-11-04 — best price $14.992023-02-20 — best price $11.012023-07-17 — best price $2.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-03-13 — best price $3.992024-06-04 — best price $19.992024-09-02 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $7.992025-02-23 — best price $13.492025-05-02 — best price $13.492025-08-13 — best price $7.992025-12-03 — best price $4.992026-03-27 — best price $7.992026-06-01 — best price $7.992026-08-24 — best price $19.992026-09-06 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

902026-06-08 — 7 pageviews2026-06-11 — 1 pageviews2026-06-14 — 4 pageviews2026-06-17 — 1 pageviews2026-06-20 — 1 pageviews2026-06-23 — 2 pageviews2026-06-26 — 2 pageviews2026-06-29 — 2 pageviews2026-07-02 — 2 pageviews2026-07-05 — 3 pageviews2026-07-08 — 3 pageviews2026-07-11 — 2 pageviews2026-07-14 — 3 pageviews2026-07-17 — 4 pageviews2026-07-20 — 2 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-26 — 1 pageviews2026-07-29 — 1 pageviews2026-08-01 — 2 pageviews2026-08-04 — 0 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 0 pageviews2026-08-13 — 3 pageviews2026-08-16 — 2 pageviews2026-08-19 — 1 pageviews2026-08-22 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 3 pageviews2026-08-28 — 4 pageviews2026-08-31 — 1 pageviews2026-09-03 — 2 pageviews2026-09-05 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
52.9%
earned "Act 1 Complete"
3.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCamera ComfortAdjustable DifficultyKeyboard Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller Support1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, German, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)1,13097%11
PS4 (PlayStation)95898%12
PS4 (PlayStation)78899%12
Steam (Steam)3266%21
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DIndieLGBTQ+NaturePuzzleColorfulAdventureHand-drawnPlatformerStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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