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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® cover art

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®

Oddworld Inhabitants · 2008-08-28

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 11, 1997 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 18, 1997 (PlayStation), Oct 22, 2009 (PlayStation 3), Oct 22, 2009 (PlayStation Portable), 1997 (DOS), Jul 30, 2012 (OnLive Game System)

Selected by the fickle finger of fate, Abe™, floor-waxer first class for RuptureFarms, was catapulted into a life of adventure when he overheard plans by his boss, Molluck the Glukkon™, to turn Abe and his fellow Mudokons into Tasty Treats as part of a last-ditch effort to rescue Molluck's failing meat-packing empire.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® is a 2008 Adventure game priced at $2.99, with an owner estimate of 500,000 .. 1,000,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (85% of 4534 reviews).

4
playing now
85%
positive of 4.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
100/100
critic score (0 outlets, IGDB)
83/100
IGDB user rating (252 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

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

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is a platform video game developed by Oddworld Inhabitants and published by GT Interactive. It was released in 1997 for the PlayStation game console, and computers running MS-DOS and Windows. A Game Boy version was released as Oddworld Adventures in 1998.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 86 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~11/week).
  • · Review velocity up 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 28,692 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 182k–363k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,541 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.79-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.56 at Fanatical (2022-06-20) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 49 of 83 observed days · $1.23 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
262620182026Week of 2018-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1732026-09-14 21:00 — 9 players2026-09-16 05:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 5 players2026-09-18 20:00 — 10 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 5 players2026-09-21 11:00 — 6 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 12 players2026-09-24 02:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 17:00 — 15 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 8 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-01 23:00 — 7 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 13 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 15 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 4 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 7 players2026-10-09 21:00 — 5 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 8 players2026-10-12 12:00 — 8 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 12 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
9327Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 12 · peak 33Dec 2012 — avg 10 · peak 27May 2013 — avg 8 · peak 19Oct 2013 — avg 8 · peak 18Mar 2014 — avg 12 · peak 30Aug 2014 — avg 18 · peak 39Jan 2015 — avg 29 · peak 81Jun 2015 — avg 27 · peak 122Nov 2015 — avg 14 · peak 37Apr 2016 — avg 22 · peak 47Sep 2016 — avg 16 · peak 49Feb 2017 — avg 15 · peak 38Jul 2017 — avg 16 · peak 46Dec 2017 — avg 53 · peak 188May 2018 — avg 932 · peak 45,049Oct 2018 — avg 19 · peak 198Mar 2019 — avg 14 · peak 61Aug 2019 — avg 29 · peak 76Jan 2020 — avg 35 · peak 122Jun 2020 — avg 73 · peak 1,179Nov 2020 — avg 18 · peak 73Apr 2021 — avg 33 · peak 99Sep 2021 — avg 16 · peak 58Feb 2022 — avg 17 · peak 56Jul 2022 — avg 28 · peak 71Dec 2022 — avg 27 · peak 67May 2023 — avg 30 · peak 308Oct 2023 — avg 20 · peak 59Mar 2024 — avg 25 · peak 61Aug 2024 — avg 28 · peak 61Jan 2025 — avg 13 · peak 66Jun 2025 — avg 9 · peak 53Nov 2025 — avg 8 · peak 54Apr 2026 — avg 8 · peak 52Aug 2026 — avg 11 · peak 61
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$5.99$0.002015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $1.492015-09-23 — best price $0.742015-12-01 — best price $2.992016-08-29 — best price $2.992017-01-02 — best price $2.992017-09-21 — best price $1.492018-01-25 — best price $2.992018-08-30 — best price $2.242019-02-04 — best price $0.742019-07-09 — best price $2.992019-12-19 — best price $0.892021-01-05 — best price $2.992021-10-29 — best price $2.192022-01-06 — best price $2.192022-05-08 — best price $2.992022-08-26 — best price $2.582022-11-22 — best price $0.742023-02-08 — best price $2.192023-05-17 — best price $2.192023-08-18 — best price $0.752023-11-22 — best price $2.292024-02-14 — best price $5.992024-05-08 — best price $5.992024-07-26 — best price $0.752024-10-11 — best price $0.742025-01-24 — best price $2.292025-07-11 — best price $2.292025-10-24 — best price $2.292026-03-06 — best price $0.742026-05-13 — best price $1.792026-08-29 — best price $1.792026-09-10 — best price $5.992026-09-22 — best price $5.992026-10-04 — best price $5.992026-10-14 — best price $1.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5551812026-05-31 — 226 pageviews2026-06-04 — 233 pageviews2026-06-08 — 268 pageviews2026-06-12 — 228 pageviews2026-06-16 — 200 pageviews2026-06-20 — 192 pageviews2026-06-24 — 209 pageviews2026-06-28 — 555 pageviews2026-07-02 — 253 pageviews2026-07-06 — 222 pageviews2026-07-10 — 294 pageviews2026-07-14 — 236 pageviews2026-07-18 — 282 pageviews2026-07-22 — 299 pageviews2026-07-26 — 307 pageviews2026-07-30 — 297 pageviews2026-08-03 — 251 pageviews2026-08-07 — 279 pageviews2026-08-11 — 279 pageviews2026-08-15 — 257 pageviews2026-08-19 — 224 pageviews2026-08-23 — 236 pageviews2026-08-27 — 243 pageviews2026-08-31 — 253 pageviews2026-09-04 — 274 pageviews2026-09-08 — 233 pageviews2026-09-12 — 283 pageviews2026-09-16 — 232 pageviews2026-09-20 — 277 pageviews2026-09-24 — 208 pageviews2026-09-28 — 238 pageviews2026-10-02 — 193 pageviews2026-10-06 — 245 pageviews2026-10-10 — 206 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish - Spain

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DDarkFunnyRetro1990'sComedyPuzzleClassicAdventureDifficult

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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