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OCTOPTICOM cover art

OCTOPTICOM

UP DEVELOPMENT LTD. · 2018-10-03

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 03, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 03, 2018 (Linux)

OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.

95%
positive of 55 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 66% of 23,046 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 55 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2024-11-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320182025Week of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$3.992018-10-042026-07-202018-10-04 — best price $9.992018-12-20 — best price $7.992019-02-12 — best price $9.992019-06-26 — best price $6.992019-09-16 — best price $9.992019-11-26 — best price $6.992020-01-20 — best price $9.992020-04-20 — best price $5.992020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-10-29 — best price $5.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-02-11 — best price $5.992021-04-26 — best price $9.992021-07-26 — best price $4.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $4.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-05-09 — best price $4.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-09-26 — best price $4.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-02-20 — best price $4.992023-05-01 — best price $9.992023-07-31 — best price $4.992023-10-30 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $4.992024-03-04 — best price $9.992024-05-20 — best price $4.992024-07-29 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $3.992025-01-13 — best price $9.992025-04-07 — best price $3.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $3.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $3.992026-05-25 — best price $9.992026-07-20 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudStatsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DIndieLogicPuzzleScienceAbstractColorfulDifficultEducationMinimalist

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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