# The Electric Shocktopus

Summer DB entity ID: a44e32ae\-070b\-437e\-8515\-636c7a567122

Steam App ID: 521300

Our hero, the titular Shocktopus, is out for revenge against the Magnetic Yeti\. Its a dangerous world, but our little Cephalopod has a trick up one of his eight sleeves:  he can change his electric charge at will \. Zoom across electric fields, twist through magnets, and use conductors to bend the world to your will\.   Never has the Right Hand Rule involved so many tentacles\!​   The game is based on the actual physics of Electromagnetism \-\- which means you'll be an expert in the topic by the end\.  Or, well, you'll have beaten a game\.  And isn't that enough?         This game has a Level Editor, and as the developer of the game, I see it as my duty to prove I can beat any level players throw my way\.  So roughly each week, I load up a level and record myself trying to beat it\.  You can watch my suffering \(and joy\) in the Feel Bad Friday video series\!               Accurate Physics from a pedant you can trust       Electric charges that attract and repel you       Magnetic fields that cause you to spin according to Lorentz Forces       Conductors that warp electric fields, calculated using the Relaxation Method       Electric currents that lead to magnetic fields, via the Biot\-Savart Law       44 Levels of fun\! Plus one level of pure torture\.       A Level Editor so you can make all your own levels, or do your own physics experiments\.       A whole bunch of spikes and missiles\.       The game comes with a virtual Voltmeter and electric field meter\.       One more opportunity not to learn the Right Hand Rule\!           Made by TestTubeGames, or more specifically me, Andy Hall\. I run an indie game studio that's devoted to making fun, interactive science experiences\.  Special Relativity, Particle Physics,  Gravity, you name it, I'm interested\! Music was created by Brian Allen Holmes, and SFX were made by Kevin Notar\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: TestTubeGames

- Publisher: TestTubeGames

- Release date: Nov 30, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Action, Indie, Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/521300/ss\_eab2d96ebe1cadf470bb8663539fc666d9188cd0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1480533530, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/521300/ss\_76b071e2ca16897d6a21792a7409c7c851cae0bd\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1480533530, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/521300/ss\_8bf6fbe8d6e75c29b9970d5bca5bed11f9f9d1f8\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1480533530, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/521300/ss\_dcf03ea2de41691c337b799c5c43a79ab6d3b5f2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1480533530, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/521300/ss\_e0af44066528c957764344282119561c99307143\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1480533530, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/521300/ss\_8284dac846637d1ab297bbae988b6fb49eb5f689\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1480533530, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/521300/ss\_23f97bf86e48431a8ef1babc0553733455c115e6\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1480533530

- Price: 799 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 11

- Steam positive reviews: 11

- Steam negative reviews: 0

- Steam positive percentage: 100%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/a44e32ae-070b-437e-8515-636c7a567122/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/a44e32ae-070b-437e-8515-636c7a567122/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T14:13:34\.640206\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T14:13:35\.953786\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T14:13:35\.690122\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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