# Tentacult\!

Summer DB entity ID: c5cd96f2\-b8c5\-45e1\-ac01\-f18fca370d28

Steam App ID: 489440

Looking out on Pleasantville one afternoon, Lord Cthulhu realized he was very lonely\. He decides to send a single Tentacute to go make new friends with these "Bonies\." After enough friends have been made, the portal to R'lyeh opens &each friend will be sacrificed\. In a style that is a cross between "Hotline Miami" and "Pikmin", convert your friends into fellow cute cephalopods\! The problem? All of your newly converted friends are frickin' morons that mimic your every move\! Luckily with strategic planning you can manipulate them against the environment to get back to the portal home to keep Lord Cthulhu company\.     PC Controls:  • WASD/↑↓→← \- Move Swarm  • Space \- Clump  • Mouse \- Menu Navigation \(not required\)    Xbox Controls:  • Left Stick \- Move Swarm  • Right Stick \- Rotate Swarm  • A \- Clump/Enter  • Start \- Pause/Menu Open/Menu Close    • Control Swarm \- Control your swarm in a QWOP manner\.   • Feed \- Convert friendly neighbors into one of the swarm\.   • Form \- Squish and squash your swarm into different shapes and sizes\.   • Clump \- Bring all your friends close together\!   • Explore \- What's that over there?   • Sacrifice \- Send your new friends home to Lord Cthulhu through the sacrificial alter\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Salty Sloth Studios L\.L\.C\.

- Publisher: Salty Sloth Studios L\.L\.C\.

- Release date: Sep 23, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489440/ss\_6a3b9ad2954aabc0c5d0a7fe8cd7f5ded0845800\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1474905813, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489440/ss\_651d765095cc405f18f75f879bdd8760980f7246\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1474905813, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489440/ss\_c6fbcff57db8d37409a92da66cfdade2733a22cb\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1474905813, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489440/ss\_0bbb0cd16edd8a73dfa1cdd94536d27ad198fddd\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1474905813, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489440/ss\_5df46751d4bded93fd92b936adcb4dacca63fb6f\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1474905813, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/489440/ss\_eb57be6cc1ce56c36580c5996d64be7bdb5fcbf7\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1474905813

- Price: 399 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 36

- Steam positive reviews: 29

- Steam negative reviews: 7

- Steam positive percentage: 80.55555555555556%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/c5cd96f2-b8c5-45e1-ac01-f18fca370d28/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/c5cd96f2-b8c5-45e1-ac01-f18fca370d28/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\-22T11:53:42\.64304\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T11:53:44\.347188\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T11:53:43\.667639\+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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