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Tentacular cover art

Tentacular

Firepunchd Games UG · Devolver Digital · 2022-03-24

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Virtual Reality

Releases: Mar 24, 2022 (Oculus Rift), Mar 24, 2022 (SteamVR), Mar 24, 2022 (Meta Quest 2), Mar 24, 2022 (Oculus Quest), Feb 22, 2023 (PlayStation VR2)

Tentacular is a VR game about a gigantic but good-hearted tentacled beast trying to figure out its place in the world.

92%
positive of 101 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Tentacular is a 2022 virtual reality action-adventure video game developed by German studio Firepunchd Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released for Windows via Meta Quest 2 and SteamVR on 24 March 2022, and released for the PlayStation 5 as a launch title for the PlayStation VR2 on February 22, 2023.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 14,898 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 101 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.80-60%
Humble Store$9.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.35 at GameBillet (2022-11-23) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 46 of 55 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020222026Week of 2022-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$4.352022-03-242026-09-102022-03-24 — best price $24.992022-06-23 — best price $19.992022-08-05 — best price $18.822022-10-24 — best price $19.992022-12-01 — best price $21.992023-01-02 — best price $21.992023-03-17 — best price $14.992023-04-24 — best price $19.962023-06-12 — best price $17.492023-06-26 — best price $19.942023-08-18 — best price $19.992023-09-16 — best price $21.222023-12-08 — best price $14.992024-01-12 — best price $19.892024-03-07 — best price $14.992024-04-22 — best price $14.992024-05-21 — best price $24.992024-07-04 — best price $24.992024-08-05 — best price $12.492024-10-10 — best price $9.752024-12-04 — best price $24.992025-01-27 — best price $9.992025-03-24 — best price $19.492025-05-19 — best price $9.992025-07-13 — best price $19.492025-10-13 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $7.802026-03-05 — best price $9.992026-05-07 — best price $9.992026-06-13 — best price $19.492026-08-14 — best price $19.492026-09-09 — best price $9.992026-09-10 — best price $7.80
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-06-16 — 5 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1 pageviews2026-06-22 — 1 pageviews2026-06-25 — 3 pageviews2026-06-28 — 4 pageviews2026-07-01 — 6 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 5 pageviews2026-07-10 — 5 pageviews2026-07-13 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 4 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-22 — 3 pageviews2026-07-25 — 7 pageviews2026-07-28 — 7 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-06 — 10 pageviews2026-08-09 — 0 pageviews2026-08-12 — 3 pageviews2026-08-15 — 7 pageviews2026-08-18 — 0 pageviews2026-08-21 — 5 pageviews2026-08-24 — 5 pageviews2026-08-27 — 5 pageviews2026-08-30 — 5 pageviews2026-09-02 — 2 pageviews2026-09-05 — 10 pageviews2026-09-08 — 1 pageviews2026-09-11 — 7 pageviews2026-09-13 — 12 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
94.6%
earned "Make A Wish"
0.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam WorkshopFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

VRFPSCuteFunnyIndieActionCasualPuzzlePhysicsSandbox

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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