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Tetrageddon Games cover art

Tetrageddon Games

alienmelon · 2023-06-28

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: Jun 28, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Tetrageddon is what the internet does to people. Bring the internet to your desktop with stunning 8-bit graphics, monkeys, and a mild lack of self respect that games can be proud of today.

88%
positive of 85 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Free
steam price (US)
Tetrageddon Games is an online compilation of video games and digital art by alienmelon, the pseudonym of independent developer and net artist Nathalie Lawhead. First published as a website titled Tetrageddon, hosting web games designed by Lawhead from 2008. Lawhead combined the releases into a compiled form on the website from 2012, receiving several iterations and revisions over time, and released a downloadable desktop release titled ARMAGAD in 2016. Following release, critics praised Tetrageddon Games for its eclectic mixture of aesthetics and gameplay styles. The project received several awards and nominations, including a Webby Award for the website version and a Nuovo Award at the Independent Games Festival.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 51% of 30,119 Indie games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

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Census log

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