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Melody's Escape

Icetesy · 2016-05-20

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 20, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 20, 2016 (Linux), May 20, 2016 (Mac)

Run, jump and slide to the rhythm of your own music library! In Melody's Escape, advanced audio detection algorithms transcribe the energy that you feel when listening to music into a synchronized gameplay experience, with a captivating and dynamic obstacle course.

Melody's Escape is an Indie game released in 2016, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and Very Positive (93% of 4803 reviews).

1
playing now
93%
positive of 4.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
12
Nexus mods (1.3k downloads)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (69 reviews).
  • · Top 4% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 120k–288k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,802 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2026-07-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
585820172026Week of 2017-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-14 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
641Feb 2014Aug 2026Feb 2014 — avg 26 · peak 247Jun 2014 — avg 10 · peak 28Oct 2014 — avg 6 · peak 16Feb 2015 — avg 8 · peak 19Jun 2015 — avg 15 · peak 42Oct 2015 — avg 16 · peak 54Feb 2016 — avg 27 · peak 100Jun 2016 — avg 40 · peak 90Oct 2016 — avg 21 · peak 78Feb 2017 — avg 20 · peak 41Jun 2017 — avg 17 · peak 57Oct 2017 — avg 10 · peak 21Feb 2018 — avg 13 · peak 34Jun 2018 — avg 14 · peak 51Oct 2018 — avg 8 · peak 20Feb 2019 — avg 9 · peak 27Jun 2019 — avg 6 · peak 17Oct 2019 — avg 6 · peak 14Feb 2020 — avg 6 · peak 13Jun 2020 — avg 6 · peak 16Oct 2020 — avg 3 · peak 12Feb 2021 — avg 5 · peak 14Jun 2021 — avg 4 · peak 9Oct 2021 — avg 3 · peak 10Feb 2022 — avg 4 · peak 10Jun 2022 — avg 4 · peak 19Oct 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Feb 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Jul 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2025 — avg 2 · peak 5May 2026 — avg 2 · peak 5Aug 2026 — avg 2 · peak 5
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$2.492015-01-012026-07-272015-01-01 — best price $7.492015-06-22 — best price $9.992015-12-22 — best price $4.992016-06-23 — best price $4.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-03-27 — best price $3.392017-09-04 — best price $3.392017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-02-19 — best price $9.992018-07-02 — best price $3.392018-09-24 — best price $9.992019-01-07 — best price $3.392019-05-10 — best price $4.992019-07-15 — best price $4.992019-10-21 — best price $4.992019-12-03 — best price $4.992020-01-23 — best price $4.992020-06-25 — best price $4.992020-11-25 — best price $4.992021-02-01 — best price $9.992021-05-18 — best price $9.992021-11-19 — best price $3.392022-02-02 — best price $9.992022-06-06 — best price $3.392022-10-24 — best price $3.392022-12-22 — best price $3.392023-04-03 — best price $3.392023-07-24 — best price $3.392023-11-13 — best price $9.992024-04-08 — best price $9.992024-10-21 — best price $9.992025-02-10 — best price $9.992025-05-28 — best price $9.992026-02-23 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-07-27 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
89.9%
earned "A First Taste of Escape"
22.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7,94810%8

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

2DIndieMusicActionRhythmRunnerColorfulModdableStylizedPlatformer

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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