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Octodad (Student Edition) cover art

Octodad (Student Edition)

Young Horses: Free Range · Young Horses · 2023-04-25

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about a day of his life. His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan nature a secret from his human family!

92%
positive of 151 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 35% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 16,901 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

3DFunnyComedyCartoonPhysicsStealthDifficultControllerSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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