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Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.

Leap Year is a exploration, precision platformer and 2d platformer game developed by Daniel Linssen and published by Daniel Linssen and Sokpop Collective.
Released on June 13th 2024 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 2,258 reviews of which 2,201 were positive and 57 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Leap Year into these genres:

Exploration Precision Platformer 2D Platformer Puzzle-Platformer Metroidvania Puzzle Platformer 2D Nonlinear Action Hand-drawn Pixel Graphics Logic Mystery Adventure Singleplayer Retro Indie Short Multiplayer

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7+
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GPU with at least 256MB of VRAM
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 50 MB available space

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March 2025
Leap Year is a wonderful little platformer that subverts genre norms around how jumping works to great effect. As with many of the best puzzle games, the mechanics are tightly focused, not overused, and the game ends before it's worn out its welcome. Definitely worth the price!
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Feb. 2025
Another exemplar of Metroidbrainias on my list. It definitely has the vibes, but Leap Year feels too small to truly qualify as one, in my opinion. When you learn a new mechanic, you apply it mostly in new areas. Previously visited places tend to have just one or two opportunities to use it. The complexity is just right—I was able to get all the days by myself, except for the last one, which really had me scratching my head.
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Feb. 2025
This is a 2d puzzle platformer that takes on a simple concept: the player has fall damage. The player can jump, but the jump is just high enough to take fall damage, killing the player instantly. The player must constantly find ways of jumping by landing on higher elevation or helpless civilians, making you think twice before you jump. The level design perfectly complements this gimmick to make exploration and discovery so enjoyable. It may be a cheap and short game, but this is a hidden gem that a platformer fan must go and play.
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Dec. 2024
What if there was a platformer where you can only move and jump -- but jumping gives enough fall damage to kill you? And what if it was structured around knowledge-based progression, like Outer Wilds and Fez? Leap Year feels like a medicine pill: something made in vitro to scratch an extremely specific itch and nothing more. The playtime is the shortest needed to achieve its intended function: 1 to 2 hours. The art is scribbly, evoking the idea that it is as incomplete as they could get away with. Everything else was either stripped bare or discarded (as if they wanted to minimize side effects) leaving the game with generic landscapes, an incoherent theme, and without any semblance of a narrative. The only thing stopping this game from being soulless and sterile is its quiet sense of humor. It is funny: god dammit, you can (and will) die (everytime) by simply jumping -- that is, by doing the most basic thing anyone can do in a platformer! Imagine a version of Doom where missing a single bullet killed you immediately, or a version of Zelda where slashing the air opened the Game Over screen -- that's the kind of trolling-based game design we're talking about here. Not only that, but the collectibles in the game are... days in February?! Why!? "Well, why not?", I can hear the designer answering, coming into view from an unseen corner of the room. This deadpan humor quietly extends itself over the rest of the level design, and it's a triumph of the game designer that this is wholly sufficient to make the game be less of a medicine pill and more of a cool university experiment where they give you 50 bucks to see how you react when you shock yourself in the nuts. It's a good game, but I wouldn't like to play it for much longer than I did.
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July 2024
Very novel concept. This is a game far more for puzzle lovers than for metroidvania lovers, but even still the world map is tightly designed. Worth experiencing for yourself.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Leap Year is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

Leap Year is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.

Leap Year received 2,201 positive votes out of a total of 2,258 achieving an impressive rating of 9.28.
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Leap Year was developed by Daniel Linssen and published by Daniel Linssen and Sokpop Collective.

Leap Year is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Leap Year is not playable on MacOS.

Leap Year is not playable on Linux.

Leap Year is a single-player game.

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Leap Year does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Leap Year does not support Steam Remote Play.

Leap Year is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Leap Year
4.99€
9.3
2,201
57
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Developer
Daniel Linssen
Publisher
Daniel Linssen, Sokpop Collective
Release 13 Jun 2024
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