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I Wani Hug that Gator!

Cavemanon · 2024-02-14

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: Feb 14, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 14, 2024 (Mac), Feb 14, 2024 (Linux), Feb 14, 2024 (Android)

I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.

I Wani Hug that Gator! is a $14.99 Casual, Indie game released in 2024, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (98% of 5743 reviews).

10
playing now
98%
positive of 5.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

10 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Just great; just when Inco was getting ready to move on into his Senior year, his parents decide to uproot his life and move half-way across the country! Guess it’s time to start all over. Sure, Inco didn’t have many friends (or any) back at his old school, and sure, he was so low on the social ladder that he had to get a deep-sea diving lesson…. Wait, why was he complaining about moving again? I Wani Hug that Gator is a multi-ended, choices-matter visual novel about second chances and the power of accepting who you are. Shape how Inco makes the most of his final year, and how the relationsh(Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

I Wani Hug that Gator! trailer thumbnail

I Wani Hug That Gator! -Release Date Trailer-

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 10 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 451 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~56/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 115k–258k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,743 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2024-10-20) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
86086020242026Week of 2024-02-01: 860 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 578 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 382 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 379 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 405 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 271 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 197 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 40 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2942026-09-14 22:00 — 26 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 14 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 10 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 23 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 19 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 8 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 16 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 21 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 14 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 19 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 13 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 13 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 11 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 15 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 13 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 12 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 28 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 11 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 17 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 16 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 17 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 7 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 22 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 10 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
22116Feb 2024Aug 2026Feb 2024 — avg 221 · peak 759Mar 2024 — avg 109 · peak 261Apr 2024 — avg 78 · peak 162May 2024 — avg 63 · peak 147Jun 2024 — avg 51 · peak 125Jul 2024 — avg 80 · peak 151Aug 2024 — avg 55 · peak 99Sep 2024 — avg 38 · peak 74Oct 2024 — avg 56 · peak 191Nov 2024 — avg 46 · peak 94Dec 2024 — avg 47 · peak 103Jan 2025 — avg 42 · peak 91Feb 2025 — avg 30 · peak 72Mar 2025 — avg 51 · peak 127Apr 2025 — avg 30 · peak 55May 2025 — avg 33 · peak 71Jun 2025 — avg 32 · peak 70Jul 2025 — avg 26 · peak 50Aug 2025 — avg 19 · peak 42Sep 2025 — avg 16 · peak 35Oct 2025 — avg 20 · peak 40Nov 2025 — avg 20 · peak 39Dec 2025 — avg 21 · peak 60Jan 2026 — avg 27 · peak 63Feb 2026 — avg 23 · peak 51Mar 2026 — avg 25 · peak 49Apr 2026 — avg 19 · peak 47May 2026 — avg 19 · peak 53Jun 2026 — avg 18 · peak 40Jul 2026 — avg 19 · peak 42Aug 2026 — avg 19 · peak 50
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$5.992024-02-142026-08-242024-02-14 — best price $14.992024-06-27 — best price $7.492024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-10-20 — best price $5.992024-10-27 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $7.492024-12-04 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $7.492025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-03 — best price $5.992025-03-10 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $8.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-05-21 — best price $7.492025-06-04 — best price $14.992025-06-27 — best price $9.742025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $8.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $7.492026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $10.492026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $7.942026-07-09 — best price $14.992026-08-17 — best price $7.942026-08-24 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

6
achievements tracked
59.8%
earned "Gator hugger"
31.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing3 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2024-04-03, latest 2025-05-28 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)39151%6

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyCasualComedyRomanceDinosaursDating SimStory RichText-Based

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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