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 |
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SteamYou are here | $24.99 | 1.2Kreviews | 88% | — | $473K |
| $24.99 | 3.7Kratings | 88% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
Themes across 328 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Après pas mal de jeux très longs, très narratifs, avec des budgets énormes et parfois un peu trop étirés, ça fait franchement du bien de revenir sur un petit platformer 2D plus simple et plus direct. Et honnêtement, Darwin’s Paradox m’a fait passer un bon moment. Déjà, le jeu est vraiment beau. Il a une ambiance très colorée, décalée, assez fun à découvrir, et ça change un peu de ce que j’ai pu faire récemment. Visuellement, c’est agréable, ça a son petit charme, et l’univers donne envie d’avancer. Côté gameplay, ça reste plutôt simple, mais ça fonctionne bien. Certaines possibilités, comme le fait de pouvoir se déplacer le long des murs et des plafonds, rendent la jouabilité vraiment sympa et assez fun à prendre en main. Ce que j’ai aussi apprécié, c’est que le jeu ne s’étale pas inutilement. Il ne cherche pas à durer 40 heures pour rien. Et franchement, pourquoi vouloir absolument faire long quand une expérience plus courte peut être plus plaisante ? Alors non, on n’est pas sur le jeu du siècle, mais ce n’est pas forcément ce qu’on lui demande. Darwin’s Paradox a surtout réussi à me faire passer un bon moment, surtout entre plusieurs jeux récents qui m’ont beaucoup moins plu. Au final, si vous aimez les jeux de plateforme, les jeux en 2D et les univers un peu décalés, franchement, vous pouvez y aller. C’est une petite expérience très cool.
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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 |
| 255ratings |
| 88% |
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| $24.99 | — | — | #46 | 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 329 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
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Very good game, as for me it is a masterpiece. Bad optimization, tho.
Très amusant et plutôt relevé mais pas impossible à finir. Il faut s'accrocher un peu car certains checkpoint sont assez lointains. On rentre vite dans le jeu et le challenge. Il y a quelques passages de gameplay assez malins ou franchement rigolos comme se faire poursuivre par un méchant poisson. Merci pour les clins d'œils pour les youngtimer de l'époque des bornes d'arcade ou de la PS1 ou PS2. Le jeu se finit presque un peu vite mais je n'ai pas cherché à débloquer tous les bonus. Bonne idée de proposer une démo. Le jeu a droit a une optimisation Steam Deck. Ouf ! Sur Steam Machine, impossible de mettre les détails à fond même en 1080p. FSR obligatoire. Ce n'est peut être pas 100% optimisé. Difficile de dépasser voir attendre 30 fps. Dommage.
Piękna grafika i gameplay, świetnie się bawiłem, polecam
Excelente juego de plataformas y puzzles con una gráficos muy buenos y una jugabilidad muy divertida . Si te gustan este tipo de juegos ya estás tardando en jugarlo. Muy recomendable
Alors là c'est un rafraichissement total et le faire en été pendant la canicule c'est top ! Je ne rejoins pas du tout les commentaires qui disent "trop faciles" ! Ce jeu fait réfléchir, on ne fait pas juste avancer, on se pose, on observe et on tente d'avancer et perso parfois je suis dead plusieurs fois avant d'y arriver ! Il fait réfléchir oui Mais sans trop se prendre la tête, çà fait du bien de passer du temps , sans toujours avoir besoin de passer 3 jours sur un casse-tête ou de devoir se battre . Le genre de jeu que je fais avant d'en refaire un plus grand. Incarner ce petit octopus si attachant était un régal , une fluidité au niveau du gameplay, c'est innovant , cependant le fait d'être un octopus j'aurai apprécié pouvoir me cacher partout quand je le voulais ! Quand aux découvertes et bien tant que n'en fait pas, tu ne sais pas qu'il y en a ! du coup frustration quand tu en découvres ta première mais pas avant le niveau 4 ... Ce jeu se joue en 2D et quelle joie de pouvoir fouiller du regard cette 3ème dimension de fond d'écran, un vrai régal ! certaines mécaniques du jeu étaient vraiment nouvelles . Alors oui j'ai passé que 10h dessus, mais un petit jeu sympa que je recommande avec certitude, je ne pense que passer 30h ou 50h m'aurait plus satisfaite . Perso je l'adore il fera certainement partie de mon best 10 cette année 2026 .
Spiel war für mich überhaupt nicht spielbar.
wanted to like this, really did. it seemed like the perfect diversion from the games i have been playing lately and probably would not have overstayed its welcome... but.. here we are. Another EwwwE5 pile of poop. First, its just mad unoptimized. really. it looks like a 360 game, just with less aliasing ok. what do you mean im taxing at basically 100%, ( actually was 97%, but that is because its adjusting frame rates down below 60fps and possibly something else automatically, something i definetly did not tell it to do). Despite the sharpness slider, and the in driver sharpness i turned outside the game, its still blurry. Despite the turning on VSR and running over 1440, its still blurry. trash but wait, there's more. this is my FAVORITE thing about EwwwwE5. fking lumen. what. a . pile. of. ♥♥♥♥. just fragmented, constantly moving and shifting and shimmering boxes of shadow or maybe not shadow? who fking knows. you devs need your sh#t pushed in. EPic, needs their sh#t pushed in. how have we regressed to such a state, when games from 2 gens ago look just as good as the ones now, if not better, and run better. only difference is the bloody anti aliasing. which is really just a bunch of contrived blurring pretending to be aa. ive fkn had it. i will never buy another game with out checking to see if it is EwwwE5 again. ill will never buy another EwwwwE5 game again. and you shouldnt either. you cant tell probably, but i am actually fking furious
Franchement, j'ai adoré me glisser dans la peau d'une pieuvre le temps de cette aventure ! C'est bourré d'action et de rebondissements, mais la vraie grosse surprise, ça a été les phases d'infiltration. Piloter une pieuvre pour faire ça, c'était juste génial. Ça faisait un moment que je le gardais sous le coude, et je ne regrette absolument pas d'avoir enfin sauté le pas. Bon, le jeu reste assez court, c'est vrai, mais ça ne gâche rien au plaisir. Je lui mets un bon 8,5 sur 10 sans hésiter.
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