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The Repairing Mantis cover art

The Repairing Mantis

Erupting Avocado · 2021-09-17

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 17, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Repairing Mantis is a narrative horror game that lets you experience the disturbing, violent (yet absurdly poetic) story of a mantis on a mission to repair a bridge made of flying squirrel flesh.

The Repairing Mantis is an Adventure and Indie game priced at $5.99 and released in 2021, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 144 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

95%
positive of 146 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.9k–6.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 146 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2024-09-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220212026Week of 2021-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$2.392021-09-172026-07-092021-09-17 — best price $5.392021-11-01 — best price $5.992022-05-20 — best price $4.492022-07-07 — best price $5.992022-11-22 — best price $3.592023-01-05 — best price $5.992023-03-16 — best price $2.992023-05-22 — best price $5.992023-07-31 — best price $4.792023-09-24 — best price $5.992023-11-21 — best price $4.192024-01-04 — best price $5.992024-03-14 — best price $4.012024-04-29 — best price $5.992024-06-27 — best price $3.592024-08-05 — best price $5.992024-10-28 — best price $3.592024-12-04 — best price $5.992024-12-20 — best price $2.392025-02-25 — best price $5.992025-04-15 — best price $2.392025-07-10 — best price $5.992025-09-29 — best price $2.392025-11-03 — best price $5.992026-02-16 — best price $2.392026-03-26 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $2.392026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
80.3%
earned "Moth backstab"
48.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Player tags

RetroHorrorMysterySurrealViolentAdventureNarrativeStory RichAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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