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Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds

Dingo Games · 2016-03-29

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 01, 2010 (Android), Sep 01, 2010 (iOS), Sep 01, 2010 (Mac), Sep 01, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Control a tiny ball of grey goo with the ability to eat anything smaller than itself. The more it eats, the bigger it gets! Eat rats, dinosaurs, gladiators, samurai, pyramids, volcanoes... Everything! Soon you'll be eating the entire planet.

Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds is an Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2016, priced at $5.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 647 reviews).

1
playing now
93%
positive of 647 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Tasty Planet is a top-down and side-scroller video game series developed by Vancouver-based studio Dingo Games and published by Delaware-based PlayFirst and Dingo Games for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, iOS, and Android.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 65 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity up 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 27,960 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 16k–39k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 647 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.59 at Steam (2018-06-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 7 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520172026Week of 2017-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 4 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 4 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 8 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 5 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 4 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
421Mar 2016Aug 2026Mar 2016 — avg 1 · peak 21Jul 2016 — avg 11 · peak 29Nov 2016 — avg 5 · peak 17Mar 2017 — avg 5 · peak 16Jul 2017 — avg 6 · peak 15Nov 2017 — avg 4 · peak 20Mar 2018 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2018 — avg 5 · peak 16Nov 2018 — avg 3 · peak 17Mar 2019 — avg 3 · peak 10Jul 2019 — avg 3 · peak 8Nov 2019 — avg 3 · peak 9Mar 2020 — avg 3 · peak 8Jul 2020 — avg 4 · peak 9Nov 2020 — avg 3 · peak 8Mar 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2021 — avg 3 · peak 8Nov 2021 — avg 3 · peak 9Mar 2022 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Nov 2022 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2023 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2023 — avg 5 · peak 13Nov 2023 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Jul 2024 — avg 3 · peak 12Nov 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2025 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Nov 2025 — avg 5 · peak 12Mar 2026 — avg 5 · peak 11Jul 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.95$3.592015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $9.952016-03-29 — best price $5.092017-02-20 — best price $5.992017-10-26 — best price $5.092017-11-28 — best price $5.992018-06-21 — best price $3.592018-11-01 — best price $5.992018-12-20 — best price $4.192019-02-12 — best price $5.992019-10-28 — best price $5.092020-01-02 — best price $5.992020-10-29 — best price $5.092020-12-01 — best price $5.992021-10-28 — best price $4.792021-12-01 — best price $5.992022-01-27 — best price $5.092022-11-22 — best price $6.392023-01-05 — best price $7.992023-07-03 — best price $4.972023-11-28 — best price $7.992024-02-12 — best price $6.392024-03-21 — best price $7.992024-11-27 — best price $5.192024-12-21 — best price $3.982025-02-10 — best price $5.592025-03-20 — best price $7.992025-09-29 — best price $4.792025-10-14 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-02-10 — best price $7.992026-04-10 — best price $5.592026-07-09 — best price $7.992026-08-21 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

61242026-05-29 — 59 pageviews2026-06-02 — 42 pageviews2026-06-06 — 39 pageviews2026-06-10 — 54 pageviews2026-06-14 — 49 pageviews2026-06-18 — 48 pageviews2026-06-22 — 27 pageviews2026-06-26 — 45 pageviews2026-06-30 — 45 pageviews2026-07-04 — 48 pageviews2026-07-08 — 35 pageviews2026-07-12 — 37 pageviews2026-07-16 — 32 pageviews2026-07-20 — 31 pageviews2026-07-24 — 52 pageviews2026-07-28 — 39 pageviews2026-08-01 — 40 pageviews2026-08-05 — 32 pageviews2026-08-09 — 44 pageviews2026-08-13 — 33 pageviews2026-08-17 — 37 pageviews2026-08-21 — 34 pageviews2026-08-25 — 43 pageviews2026-08-29 — 35 pageviews2026-09-02 — 34 pageviews2026-09-06 — 38 pageviews2026-09-10 — 25 pageviews2026-09-14 — 29 pageviews2026-09-18 — 32 pageviews2026-09-22 — 29 pageviews2026-09-26 — 43 pageviews2026-09-30 — 29 pageviews2026-10-04 — 37 pageviews2026-10-07 — 36 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
89.4%
earned "Molecular Gastronomy"
15.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play Together

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,1094%25

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

Player tags

2DCuteCo-opFunnyIndieActionCasualSci-fiTop-DownAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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