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Song of the Deep

Insomniac Games · GameTrust Games · 2016-07-11

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Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 12, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Jul 12, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 12, 2016 (Xbox One)

From the creators of Ratchet & Clank, Song of the Deep is a metroidvania-style action-adventure game following a young girl’s quest into the unknown to find her missing father. It combines underwater discovery, skill, and suspense with a powerful story.

1
playing now
85%
positive of 869 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
critic score (17 outlets, IGDB)
76/100
IGDB user rating (29 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Song of the Deep is an action-adventure video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by GameTrust Games. In the game, the player controls Merryn, a young girl who crafts a makeshift submarine to search for her father who went missing while fishing. The game was released in July 2016 on PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. The retail chain GameStop published the game, under the brand of GameTrust Games, the chain's first foray into such distribution.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 32% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 22k–52k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 869 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Humble Store (2018-05-10) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $12.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$2.992016-06-102026-08-292016-06-10 — best price $14.992016-08-15 — best price $9.892016-09-22 — best price $14.992016-11-23 — best price $5.092016-12-12 — best price $9.992016-12-24 — best price $9.992017-01-12 — best price $5.092017-07-05 — best price $14.992017-10-26 — best price $3.742017-11-28 — best price $14.992017-12-24 — best price $14.992018-01-25 — best price $14.992018-05-10 — best price $2.992018-07-05 — best price $14.992018-10-29 — best price $2.992018-11-27 — best price $14.992019-01-10 — best price $2.992019-02-12 — best price $14.992019-06-20 — best price $3.742019-07-08 — best price $3.742019-08-29 — best price $2.992019-11-01 — best price $14.992019-12-03 — best price $14.992020-01-09 — best price $3.742020-01-27 — best price $14.992020-06-25 — best price $3.742020-09-10 — best price $14.992020-11-25 — best price $3.742020-12-22 — best price $3.742026-08-29 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

307332026-06-01 — 51 pageviews2026-06-04 — 167 pageviews2026-06-07 — 75 pageviews2026-06-10 — 77 pageviews2026-06-13 — 63 pageviews2026-06-16 — 50 pageviews2026-06-19 — 46 pageviews2026-06-22 — 38 pageviews2026-06-25 — 57 pageviews2026-06-28 — 60 pageviews2026-07-01 — 42 pageviews2026-07-04 — 33 pageviews2026-07-07 — 57 pageviews2026-07-10 — 41 pageviews2026-07-13 — 60 pageviews2026-07-16 — 66 pageviews2026-07-19 — 70 pageviews2026-07-22 — 57 pageviews2026-07-25 — 47 pageviews2026-07-28 — 56 pageviews2026-07-31 — 54 pageviews2026-08-03 — 71 pageviews2026-08-06 — 61 pageviews2026-08-09 — 76 pageviews2026-08-12 — 106 pageviews2026-08-15 — 125 pageviews2026-08-18 — 126 pageviews2026-08-21 — 98 pageviews2026-08-24 — 81 pageviews2026-08-27 — 61 pageviews2026-08-29 — 96 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
45.9%
earned "The Last Merrow"
16.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)2,85128%10
Xbox One (Xbox)2,64134%10
Steam (Steam)1,99723%10
PS4 (PlayStation)1,40338%10

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

Player tags

2DIndieActionPuzzleAdventureSubmarinePlatformerUnderwaterMetroidvaniaSide Scroller

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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