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Celeste

Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Games, Ltd. · Maddy Makes Games Inc.

Quick read

Celeste is a precision climb: a mountain of authored rooms, cheap deaths, and a panic you manage as carefully as a dash. Assist mode is there; the mountain is still written.

What kind of game is it?

A 2D climb with grab, dash, and B-sides. The save is a room you learned rather than a shop you paid. Assist mode and a story sit on the same mountain — nothing here rerolls because you failed, and the next sitting is the same screen with a cleaner dash.

Who is it for?

For players who want a mountain of rooms they dash until the panic gets quieter.

How it plays

Loop: Action combat
Sessions: Short sessions
Progression: Campaign
Players: Single-player
Structure: Linear
Tone: Tense · Brutal

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

Progression80
Estimate
Social18
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Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Aug 2026.

Release

released

2018-01-25

Review score

97.4%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count

145,799

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Store price

€18.99

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Languages

Demo

Early Access

Players

Single-player

How many people play Celeste?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies

3.6M – 8M

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players

7,720

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026

1,808

Peak that month: 2,942.

Median playtime

28.8 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 11.9–55.9 h. 1% under 2 h.

Players over time

Sept 2023Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

English52%
Simplified Chinese13%
Spanish (Spain)10%
Portuguese (Brazil)7%
Russian7%
French3%

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

Celeste keeps the focus on action combat for the whole session.

Core mechanics

Platforming

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Genre / subgenre

Subgenres: Precision platformer.

Steam genre: platformer.

Related rankings

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Sources

Store price checked 17 Aug 2026.

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