Step into a cinematic adventure as Darwin, a brilliant octopus trapped in a mysterious industrial world. Use his unique abilities - swimming, wall-climbing, shooting ink, camouflage, and more - to overcome traps and escape.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.43/day in the week to Sep 1 → 5.14/day in the week after.
About
Embark on a grand adventure worthy of a true animated movie with Darwin, an octopus as charming as he is clever, ripped from the ocean and trapped in a massive and mysterious industrial complex. With his extraordinary intelligence and incredible abilities – swimming, camouflage, and many other fascinating skills – help him overcome the most formidable traps and dangers in this captivating platformer, adventure, and puzzle game.
In the peaceful vastness of the ocean, Darwin, a young octopus, explores the deep sea… until a strange beam of light pierces the abyss and pulls him toward the surface. Thrust out of his aquatic world, he wakes up disoriented in the middle of a gigantic junkyard, backed by a foreboding factory.
But something is wrong. Between the threatening machines, strange holding tanks, and the mysterious and dangerous creatures and characters that inhabit the place, Darwin realizes he is in danger. To return to the ocean, Darwin will have to outsmart, evolve, and reveal to the players through his journey the mysteries of a conspiracy that goes beyond anything one could have imagined… and which could very well seal the fate of humanity!
Main Gameplay Features:
With rich artistic direction and a vibrant world, Darwin’s Paradox immerses you in a visual and emotional epic where every detail reveals more of its incredible story.
The game offers a perfect balance between platforming sequences and moments of puzzle-solving: Swim, hide, infiltrate, jump, and use the extraordinary abilities of an octopus to advance in your adventure, escape perilous situations, or solve the many puzzles in the game.
Discover sprawling levels with a unique and polished artistic direction, filled with puzzles, dangers, and surprising creatures and characters.
Between humor, emotion, and suspense, Darwin takes you on a memorable odyssey.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Epic, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $24.99 | 1.2Kreviews | 88% | — | $473K |
| $24.99 | 3.7Kratings | 88% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
Themes across 326 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Amazing game, sometimes frustrating but in a good way. Story is fun, the art and scenery is amazing and it's really a fun game. Recommend for sure!
Véritable héritier de métal gear solid. on retrouve tout ce qui fait le charme des grands jeux d'infiltration: discretion, stratégie, approche méthodique. et surtout une manière particulièrement violente de régler les problèmes. Entre les situations absurdes, l'approche parfois complétement chaotique et cette philosophie du "survivre, s'adapter, et accessoirement faire beaucoup de dégât mais sauver le monde" Darwinb Paradox prouve qu'un bon jeu d'infiltration n'a pas besoin d'un espion surentrainé. il lui suffit d'un Darwin
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese*languages with full audio support
| $24.99 |
| 254ratings |
| 88% |
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| $24.99 | — | — | #41 | not modelled |
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 327 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I wanted to give it a thumbs down (so only 1/3 of 100), but Earth math is weird.
Fun little game. Even funnier achivements. Piano in the head, A+ for that one. Seen people complain it was to short. It was enough.
los creadores odian al pobre Darwin lo maltratan mucho JAJAJA sierve para pasar el rato cuando no hay nada que hacer, visualmente es un arte 10/10 de historia no entendi al principio creia que el pulpo queria escapar al mar pero termina deteniendo una invasion alienigena lol y si sacara algo negativo pues la verdad nada, es muy intuitivo igual si te pierdes o no sabes que hacer el juego da pistas. Bueno si algo molesto seria que algunas partes donde pasa algo te ponen un video digo creo que ya estamos en un punto donde las animaciones se pueden usar con el mismo juego fck no se si me entienda pero bn es una queja muy x que no afecta nada ps las animaciones son de 15 o 20 segundos bueno ya ♥♥♥♥ mucho relleno bye
A very silly 2D puzzle/platformer where you control an octopus that's definitely not responsible for the failure of an alien invasion. It took me about 5 hours to 100%. + Very fun and comedic story, told without words and lots of background. + Excellent visual and sound design. + Easy to control and generally some options to play your way. + Blow up your enemies, ink your friends... mostly by accident. + That cliffhanger though! - Some tedious puzzles that weren't complex, just hard to execute in a not-fun way. - Some puzzles really have one (and only one) solution. - Unreal Engine with both its good and flickery bad. A very fun little game that I enjoyed while it lasted. Quick, quirky and entertaining. Recommend!
Perfect length game for what’s on offer. On the surface it comes across overly simple but by the end of the 4/5 run time it actually puts you through a load of interesting set pieces. Also, needless to say it’s stunning to look at too
amazing
What an amazing game! Good story, great animation, character movement and some pretty funny parts thrown in. Reminds me of Rayman, but nowhere near as difficult...which is a very good thing. EXCEPT for that mushroom level! I died so many times I think the game just let me pass through it. Only bad thing about it is that the game is short. Can't wait for the follow-up, or at least some DLC. Just get this already.
Puzzle/platformer sevenler için ideal, 2.5d göz alıcı bölüm tasarımları ve oynanışı ile öne çıkan başarılı bir oyun. Son dönemde gördüğüm en iyi indielerden biri bu anlamda. Kısa ama akıcı oyun süresi ile oyuncuyu sıkmadan farklı bölümlere ve puzzle yapılarına götüren oyun bence oynanmayı hak ediyor. (8/10)
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