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Growing My Manhole

Growing My Manhole

Consume the universe, grow from Manhole to Black Hole in this insatiable incremental game.

Released Sep 30, 2026 Developer SylverDev, Gearbyte Games Publisher Gearbyte Games Platforms Windows IncrementalIdlerArcadeCleaning2D
View on Steam ↗ $4.99 (US · as of 2026-10-20)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-11 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-03.

78.5%positive107 reviews
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“Campaign was around 100 Minutes. But the main problem is, WHY is there that many upgrades past 100% and then no achievement for either 52/52 booster cards and every purchase? Small oversight in an otherwise small gem for a fun evening. Could've deffo been longer with some more…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Very short, but still sweet. 100% the game in less than 100 minutes, but I would rather a good experience then artificially inflating the upgrades 5x longer. Wish it was longer, but had fun”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Not recommended · 34 found this helpful

“Another Incremental where the demo was greater than the final game.”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-20.

23achievements
88.0%median completion
43.1%rarest: Collector
99.8% of players 99.7% of players 99.5% of players 99.4% of players 96.0% of players 94.2% of players 91.9% of players 91.7% of players 91.2% of players 90.8% of players 90.3% of players 88.0% of players 87.1% of players 87.0% of players 86.2% of players 83.2% of players 82.8% of players 82.5% of players 81.4% of players 80.8% of players 78.8% of players 76.6% of players 43.1% of players 99.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
99.8%Completed your first run — Complete your first run
99.7%Personal Best — Beat your best-run earnings
99.5%Second Chance! — Activate Second Wind for the first time
Rarest badges of honor
43.1%Collector — Collected all the cards in the gallery
76.6%AFK — Complete a run with Idle Mode On
78.8%Completion — Complete Main Gamemode

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-10-03. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$4.99current · sampled 2026-10-20 11:41 UTC
$3.99lowest since tracking began2026-10-03
US4.99 USD
EU4.99 EUR
UK4.50 GBP
Australia6.95 AUD
Canada5.99 CAD
Japan599 JPY
Brazil18.99 BRL
China20.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$3.0 Brazil Japan Canada Australia US EU UK≈$6.0

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-10-20). Relative comparison only.

$0 $5 $10 10-03 10-06 10-09 10-13 10-16 10-20

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Oct 05, 2026
v1.1 Patch Notes

Patch Notes v1.1 Thank you all so much for trying and playing the game! We got many feedback from the past few days and here we have made some changes to address some issues. Balancing (Early Game too

Sep 30, 2026
Growing My Manhole Out Now!

Growing My Manhole is officially out on Steam now! Come join in and grow yours too. Developing this game has been such a weird but meaningful journey. The name came to me while I was taking a dump. I

Sep 14, 2026
Growing My Manhole Releases in 2 weeks!

Great news to share! Growing My Manhole releases September 30th at 5:00 PM CEST / 8:00 AM PDT. I'm slowly wrapping things up and also prepping for my booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026. Thank you so much t

Jul 14, 2026
Art Update! Thank you for 6,000 Wishlists!

Hi everyone! This is SylverDev from Gearbyte Games, the main Developer of Growing My Manhole. We just hit 6,000 wishlists , actually we're closing in on 6,500 now. Thank you all so much! Every wishlis

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-10-03.

GenresCasual, Indie
Player tagsIncremental · Idler · Arcade · Cleaning · 2D · Top-Down · Relaxing · Controller · Casual · Abstract · Colorful · Minimalist (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Custom Volume Controls · Mouse Only Option · #category_playable_at_your_own_pace · Playable without Timed Input · DualShock Controller Support
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Romanian, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish
ControllerFull support
Achievements22
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 or newer Processor: 2.5Ghz or better Memory: 2 GB RAM