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Pepper Grinder cover art

Pepper Grinder

Ahr Ech · Devolver Digital · 2024-03-28

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ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 28, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 06, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Aug 06, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 28, 2024 (Linux), Mar 28, 2024 (Mac), Mar 28, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Pepper Grinder is an action-packed 2D adventure blending traditional platforming with an alternate drilling mode that allows you to dive in and out of the earth like a dolphin swims through water.

86%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (25 ratings)
4.12★
PlayStation Store rating (294 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)
Pepper Grinder is an action-platform video game developed by indie developer Ahr Ech and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released on March 28, 2024 for Windows and Nintendo Switch. It was also released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on August 6, 2024.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 125 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Review velocity down 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 28,442 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 26k–58k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,298 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$5.99-60%
Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.74 at Nuuvem (2026-10-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 29 of 37 observed days · $2.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
18418420242026Week of 2024-03-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$5.992026-09-102026-10-162026-09-10 — best price $5.992026-09-11 — best price $5.992026-09-12 — best price $5.992026-09-13 — best price $5.992026-09-14 — best price $5.992026-09-15 — best price $5.992026-09-16 — best price $5.992026-09-17 — best price $5.992026-09-18 — best price $5.992026-09-19 — best price $5.992026-09-20 — best price $5.992026-09-21 — best price $14.992026-09-22 — best price $14.992026-09-23 — best price $14.992026-09-24 — best price $5.992026-09-25 — best price $5.992026-09-26 — best price $5.992026-09-27 — best price $5.992026-09-28 — best price $5.992026-09-29 — best price $5.992026-09-30 — best price $5.992026-10-01 — best price $5.992026-10-02 — best price $5.992026-10-03 — best price $5.992026-10-04 — best price $5.992026-10-05 — best price $5.992026-10-06 — best price $5.992026-10-07 — best price $14.992026-10-08 — best price $14.992026-10-09 — best price $14.992026-10-10 — best price $14.992026-10-11 — best price $14.992026-10-12 — best price $5.992026-10-13 — best price $5.992026-10-14 — best price $5.992026-10-15 — best price $5.992026-10-16 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1822026-07-18 — 4 pageviews2026-07-21 — 11 pageviews2026-07-24 — 14 pageviews2026-07-27 — 14 pageviews2026-07-30 — 17 pageviews2026-08-02 — 9 pageviews2026-08-05 — 10 pageviews2026-08-08 — 18 pageviews2026-08-11 — 8 pageviews2026-08-14 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 14 pageviews2026-08-20 — 8 pageviews2026-08-23 — 6 pageviews2026-08-26 — 16 pageviews2026-08-29 — 9 pageviews2026-09-01 — 11 pageviews2026-09-04 — 10 pageviews2026-09-07 — 8 pageviews2026-09-10 — 6 pageviews2026-09-13 — 15 pageviews2026-09-16 — 9 pageviews2026-09-19 — 2 pageviews2026-09-22 — 7 pageviews2026-09-25 — 2 pageviews2026-09-28 — 7 pageviews2026-10-01 — 11 pageviews2026-10-04 — 8 pageviews2026-10-07 — 9 pageviews2026-10-10 — 6 pageviews2026-10-13 — 11 pageviews2026-10-15 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
93.1%
earned "Treasure Hunter"
14.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

14 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-03-28 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,7268%23
PS5 (PlayStation)87820%23
Switch (Nintendo)3560%0
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)23510%23
PS4 (PlayStation)11327%23

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyRetroActionArcadeCombatColorfulDifficultController

Census log

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

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