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Shelldiver

Gagonfe · 2025-11-16

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 16, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take a deep breath and dive right into this cozy incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. Upgrade your equipment, explore biomes, and help your turtly village!

99%
positive of 17k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
70/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 3,291 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~411/week).
  • · Review velocity up 335% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 8% of 10,945 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 338k–761k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 16,901 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Fanatical (2026-06-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 21 of 31 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.3k2.3k20252026Week of 2025-11-16: 2,058 positiveWeek of 2025-11-16: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-11-23: 2,289 positiveWeek of 2025-11-23: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-11-30: 1,092 positiveWeek of 2025-11-30: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-07: 429 positiveWeek of 2025-12-07: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-14: 588 positiveWeek of 2025-12-14: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-21: 759 positiveWeek of 2025-12-21: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-28: 727 positiveWeek of 2025-12-28: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-04: 487 positiveWeek of 2026-01-04: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-11: 445 positiveWeek of 2026-01-11: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-18: 385 positiveWeek of 2026-01-18: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-25: 284 positiveWeek of 2026-01-25: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-08: 189 positiveWeek of 2026-02-08: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-15: 174 positiveWeek of 2026-02-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-22: 282 positiveWeek of 2026-02-22: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-08: 124 positiveWeek of 2026-03-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-15: 135 positiveWeek of 2026-03-15: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-03-22: 300 positiveWeek of 2026-03-22: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-29: 186 positiveWeek of 2026-03-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-05: 257 positiveWeek of 2026-04-05: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-12: 216 positiveWeek of 2026-04-12: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-19: 123 positiveWeek of 2026-04-19: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-26: 101 positiveWeek of 2026-04-26: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-03: 75 positiveWeek of 2026-05-03: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-10: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-05-17: 93 positiveWeek of 2026-05-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-24: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-05-24: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-31: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-05-31: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-07: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-06-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-14: 110 positiveWeek of 2026-06-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-21: 988 positiveWeek of 2026-06-21: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-06-28: 754 positiveWeek of 2026-06-28: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-05: 489 positiveWeek of 2026-07-05: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-12: 224 positiveWeek of 2026-07-12: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-19: 157 positiveWeek of 2026-07-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-26: 303 positiveWeek of 2026-07-26: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-02: 219 positiveWeek of 2026-08-02: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-08-09: 92 positiveWeek of 2026-08-09: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$2.992025-11-162026-08-032025-11-16 — best price $3.992025-11-30 — best price $4.992025-12-02 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $3.742026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-01-12 — best price $3.742026-01-19 — best price $4.992026-02-09 — best price $4.242026-02-23 — best price $3.742026-02-24 — best price $4.242026-03-02 — best price $4.992026-03-09 — best price $3.992026-03-11 — best price $3.492026-03-12 — best price $3.992026-03-19 — best price $3.492026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-03-27 — best price $3.662026-04-06 — best price $3.492026-04-13 — best price $4.992026-04-24 — best price $4.992026-04-25 — best price $3.662026-05-26 — best price $3.682026-05-28 — best price $3.702026-05-29 — best price $3.722026-05-30 — best price $3.732026-06-19 — best price $2.992026-06-20 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-07-11 — best price $3.732026-07-27 — best price $2.992026-08-03 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
99.1%
earned "100m Depth"
73.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCamera ComfortPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSave Anytime

12 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,24577%13
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)0—12

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

Where its players are

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

Census log

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

Recent updates

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