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Leap Year cover art

Leap Year

Daniel Linssen · 2024-06-13

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jun 14, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 05, 2026 (Nintendo Switch)

Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.

Leap Year is an Action, Adventure, and Indie title released in 2024, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (97% of 3210 reviews).

8
playing now
97%
positive of 3.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
2h
to beat · completionist 10h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

Leap Year is a puzzle-platformer video game developed in 2024 by Daniel Linssen and published by Sokpop Collective. Creating using GameMaker Engine, Leap Year is playable on Windows. It would later receive downloadable content on February 28, 2025 known as Leap Year March.

Trailer

Leap Year trailer thumbnail

Leap Year Official Trailer #1 - Amy Adams, Matthew Goode Movie (2010) HD

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 8 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 458 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~57/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 64k–144k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,210 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.49 at Steam (2025-02-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 6 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
43843820242026Week of 2024-06-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 265 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 305 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 438 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 47 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1812026-09-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 7 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 7 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 9 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 5 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 5 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 6 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 15 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 8 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 11 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 5 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 12 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 18 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$3.492024-06-142026-08-032024-06-14 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $3.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-02-28 — best price $3.492025-03-07 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $4.492025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-05-29 — best price $3.992025-06-05 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $3.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $3.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-10-13 — best price $3.992025-10-27 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-02-04 — best price $3.992026-02-11 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $3.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-05-28 — best price $3.992026-06-04 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-07-27 — best price $3.992026-08-03 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1932026-06-01 — 13 pageviews2026-06-05 — 6 pageviews2026-06-09 — 11 pageviews2026-06-13 — 9 pageviews2026-06-17 — 4 pageviews2026-06-21 — 4 pageviews2026-06-25 — 7 pageviews2026-06-29 — 5 pageviews2026-07-03 — 4 pageviews2026-07-07 — 10 pageviews2026-07-11 — 6 pageviews2026-07-15 — 4 pageviews2026-07-19 — 8 pageviews2026-07-23 — 4 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 3 pageviews2026-08-04 — 3 pageviews2026-08-08 — 17 pageviews2026-08-12 — 9 pageviews2026-08-16 — 13 pageviews2026-08-20 — 6 pageviews2026-08-24 — 9 pageviews2026-08-28 — 3 pageviews2026-09-01 — 11 pageviews2026-09-05 — 10 pageviews2026-09-09 — 15 pageviews2026-09-13 — 11 pageviews2026-09-17 — 11 pageviews2026-09-21 — 9 pageviews2026-09-25 — 10 pageviews2026-09-29 — 9 pageviews2026-10-03 — 6 pageviews2026-10-07 — 4 pageviews2026-10-11 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
99.5%
earned "Red"
61.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-02-28 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,5526%19
Switch (Nintendo)90%0

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

2DLogicActionPuzzleMysteryAdventureNonlinearHand-drawnPlatformerExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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