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Tadpole Tales

Andrei Cretu · Pinnical Studio · 2021-03-12

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 12, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A tiny 2D Hand-drawn "Clean 'Em Up" game about a tadpole cleaning rivers and fighting pollution.

0
playing now
90%
positive of 872 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Tadpole Tales is a tiny 2D Hand Drawn Clean ‘em Up about a tiny tadpole cleaning rivers and fighting pollution. In this journey, you get to play in three different froggy forms based on your health, with wave-like patterns of enemies. You heard it, it’s a clean ‘em up, not a shoot 'em up. All the animations you see are hand-drawn frame by frame. We hope that this little game can offer you a short yet pleasant experience, something that anyone can pick up and put in their library. This game is a love letter to retro gaming, reminiscent of GBA games. We hope you enjoy it!(Storyline via IGDB)

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  • · Top 37% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

4
achievements tracked
2.7%
earned "My lake is saved!"
2.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10566%4

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

Player tags

2DPvECuteActionArcadeLinearCartoonyColorfulTop-DownHand-drawn

Census log

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