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Professor Watts Word Search: Into The Ocean cover art

Professor Watts Word Search: Into The Ocean

Ripknot Systems · 2017-07-16

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 21, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Hello Professor Watts here and I need your help! I've been hard at work on my ocean expedition, collecting samples and documenting important research materials. Now that I have returned to my laboratory I find all of my research files has been jumbled about.

Professor Watts Word Search: Into The Ocean is a Casual, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2017, priced at $4.99, with an estimated owner count of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (55% of 124 reviews).

0
playing now
55%
positive of 124 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 28% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.1k–7.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 124 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-01-05) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420172026Week of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
00Jul 2017Aug 2019Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Aug 2019

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.492017-07-172026-07-202017-07-17 — best price $1.192017-09-25 — best price $1.992017-12-21 — best price $0.992018-02-19 — best price $1.992018-08-17 — best price $0.492018-11-16 — best price $1.992019-01-11 — best price $0.492019-04-19 — best price $0.492019-07-10 — best price $0.492019-11-01 — best price $4.992019-12-19 — best price $0.492020-06-10 — best price $4.992020-09-14 — best price $0.492020-11-16 — best price $4.992021-01-11 — best price $0.492021-03-16 — best price $4.992021-07-19 — best price $0.492021-11-01 — best price $4.992021-12-22 — best price $0.492022-02-14 — best price $4.992022-06-23 — best price $0.492022-09-26 — best price $4.992023-01-02 — best price $0.492023-03-20 — best price $4.992023-06-29 — best price $0.492023-09-04 — best price $4.992023-12-04 — best price $1.042024-01-22 — best price $4.992024-04-08 — best price $0.742024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-10-21 — best price $0.992024-12-16 — best price $4.992025-03-03 — best price $0.742025-06-02 — best price $4.992025-09-08 — best price $0.992025-10-27 — best price $4.992026-02-02 — best price $0.742026-04-06 — best price $4.992026-07-13 — best price $0.742026-07-20 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
98%
earned "Super Trivia Champion"
93%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DIndieRetroCasualPuzzleRelaxingStrategySimulationStory RichText-Based

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.