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Loddlenaut

Moon Lagoon · Secret Mode · 2023-11-16

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 16, 2023 (Mac), Nov 16, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 19, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!

Loddlenaut is an Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2023, priced at $5.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (98% of 6137 reviews).

23
playing now
98%
positive of 6.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

23 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Loddlenaut is a creature-raising survival game that takes place on an ocean planet. Play as an interstellar custodian who is sent to clean up an abandoned planet polluted by a mega-corporation as you get it ready for the next company to move in. Your mission: to clean up GUP-14, a small ocean planet that was once the home of GUPPI, a mega-corporation that makes and sells everything from soda to rockets. When you first arrive on the planet, you’ll find yourself amid murky waters, oil spills, and scattered junk. Within the polluted environments, you’ll find remnants of GUPPI’s buildings, ships, (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 23 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 726 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~91/week).
  • · Review velocity up 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 123k–276k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,137 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$17.99-10%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.86 at GameBillet (2025-11-24) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 114 of 156 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
41341320232026Week of 2023-11-01: 413 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 337 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

81122026-08-11 17:00 — 56 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 44 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 49 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 59 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 44 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 64 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 81 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 68 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 65 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 50 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 24 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 34 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 41 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 26 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 21 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 31 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 12 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 43 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 35 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 19 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 31 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 22 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 20 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 16 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 22 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 14 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 18 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 26 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 23 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.862023-10-202026-08-172023-10-20 — best price $17.992024-01-18 — best price $14.992024-03-17 — best price $14.992024-04-25 — best price $19.992024-06-05 — best price $17.882024-07-23 — best price $17.992024-08-15 — best price $12.992024-09-26 — best price $9.982024-10-24 — best price $9.652024-11-11 — best price $19.992024-12-01 — best price $9.652024-12-24 — best price $9.542025-01-05 — best price $14.392025-01-28 — best price $9.642025-02-21 — best price $7.802025-03-06 — best price $8.992025-04-01 — best price $16.972025-04-29 — best price $6.792025-05-23 — best price $9.002025-06-27 — best price $9.002025-07-22 — best price $14.372025-08-16 — best price $7.682025-09-04 — best price $15.932025-09-30 — best price $8.942025-10-25 — best price $9.002025-11-24 — best price $3.862025-12-12 — best price $18.792026-01-23 — best price $5.402026-02-19 — best price $6.392026-03-23 — best price $19.992026-04-17 — best price $17.192026-05-21 — best price $5.742026-06-13 — best price $17.882026-07-14 — best price $19.792026-08-06 — best price $4.752026-08-17 — best price $17.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
85.9%
earned "Learning the Ropes"
49.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,70128%23
Switch (Nintendo)440%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

3DCozyCuteCasualSci-fiSandboxColorfulRelaxingAdventureOpen World

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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