Tadpole Tales

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 848 reviews of which 763 were positive and 85 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

Media & Screenshots

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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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Free to play

8.5

763

Online players

Developer

Andrei Cretu, Giacomo Autili, Tomer Barnea

Publisher

Pinnical Studio

Release 12 Mar 2021

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