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A tiny 2D Hand-drawn "Clean 'Em Up" game about a tadpole cleaning rivers and fighting pollution.

Tadpole Tales is a shoot 'em up, hand-drawn and 2d game developed by Andrei Cretu, Giacomo Autili and Tomer Barnea and published by Pinnical Studio.
Released on March 12th 2021 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 854 reviews of which 771 were positive and 83 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Tadpole Tales into these genres:

Shoot 'Em Up Hand-drawn 2D Cute Side Scroller Bullet Hell Arcade PvE Action-Adventure Top-Down Colorful Action Linear Cartoony Family Friendly Stylized Singleplayer Fantasy Free to Play Adventure

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD equivalent
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970 or AMD equivalent
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

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Frequently Asked Questions

Tadpole Tales is free to play on Steam.

Tadpole Tales is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.

Tadpole Tales received 771 positive votes out of a total of 854 achieving a rating of 8.50.
😎

Tadpole Tales was developed by Andrei Cretu, Giacomo Autili and Tomer Barnea and published by Pinnical Studio.

Tadpole Tales is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Tadpole Tales is not playable on MacOS.

Tadpole Tales is not playable on Linux.

Tadpole Tales is a single-player game.

Tadpole Tales does not currently offer any DLC.

Tadpole Tales does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Tadpole Tales does not support Steam Remote Play.

Tadpole Tales does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Tadpole Tales.

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Tadpole Tales
Free to play
8.5
771
83
Game modes
Online players
0
Developer
Andrei Cretu, Giacomo Autili, Tomer Barnea
Publisher
Pinnical Studio
Release 12 Mar 2021
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