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Swallow the Sea

Talia bob Mair · ItsTheTalia · 2021-09-03

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 24, 2020 (Mac), Apr 24, 2020 (Linux), Apr 24, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are a lowly egg cell on a journey through a swollen sea of strange and humanoid fish. Prey on smaller life and growing larger and stronger to perhaps someday be born.

Swallow the Sea is a free-to-play Action, Adventure, Casual, and Free To Play game released in 2021, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment (97% of 2463 reviews).

0
playing now
97%
positive of 2.5k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
56/100
IGDB user rating (17 ratings)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 1h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 114 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~14/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (821 reviews).
  • · Top 10% of 27,740 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
79979920212026Week of 2021-09-01: 799 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 244 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
96.6%
earned "Swallowed by the Sea"
11.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-06-16 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,49810%10

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.

Player tags

2DCuteDarkIndieActionCasualSurvivalAdventureDark HumorAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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