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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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
Darwn's Paradox is a nice little game, with polished gameplay and graphicsm, but it's a really short game. It does crash in certain areas so be aware of that but overall, my experience was very smooth. Don't expect too much out of the plot, it's meant to be a fun game, not an engaging one. I think games like this need to have genre of their own. Relatively high quality games that serve as a filler when you're between major game releases or just need a break from 50+ hour games. Especially for adults with many responsibilities and hobbies/commitments beyond video gaming, you have limited time to enjoy video games. These games fill that gap nicely.
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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
This game was great. Games got a good style in terms of art and music, and the locations look really good. This game might be kinda short (finished in 4.4 hours, didn't 100% collectables) but with it was a good story about our octopuss dude on his adventure. Gameplay is kinda basic but still fun. Overall a good indie game and with the ending, hope the devs make a second game or dlc as they cooked.
Very very good. I've always needed a game like this, and it's delivered.
BON JEUX POUR SE DISTRAIRE UN PEU
The game is beautiful, the soundtrack is orchestrated greatly, and I had some good chuckles. But the goods stops there. It's incredibly short, 5h and all achievements done (like 3h for the first playthrough). The story doesn't make that much sense as you don't have much of a goal other than "move forward" and things happen around you. The end felt incredibly underwhelming. You learn your abilities during the first chapter only to forget them instantly, why? It's easy platforming, but with a lot of deaths that you just need to die to learn how to proceed. There's a looot of waiting for cycles or NPCs to move away. Even on sale, I felt like I paid too much for what it is.
Kurzes (5,5h) aber witziges kleines Spiel für Zwischendurch mit lustigen Easter Eggs. *quaaack*
Fun, silly, and engaging, and above all irreverent, and the controls and animations are fluid and appropriate. Don't expect much of a story except an implied circumstantial one. BUT major caveat: The first 9/10 of the game are a blast to play, and then after that Konami simply threw their own game in the dumpster and I will NEVER EVER buy a game that even smells like them ever again. Probably betrayed by their own board of directors who insisted on a stupid hard ending sequence and deliberately removed checkpoints. Why would they do that? Because they want you buying new games, and destroying the beautiful first 9/10 of the game is the best way to do that for sheep consumers. Recommended Steam rating and a loyal customer lost, because top management wanted to destroy the replay-ability of their own game. All it would have taken was 2 more checkpoints. Do yourself a huge favour, don't buy this game, and if you do buy it watch the ending sequence on Youtube, you won't miss much as the ending is VERY lackluster anyway.
Just an awesome game! Some tricky parts, and totally worth it. Can't wait for a possible sequel...
i didnt have any issues with the demo. so i bought the game and now it keeps having fatal crashes. can this be fixed ? any suggestions?
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