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Leap Year
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Fun. Beat it in 2 hours. But something about the artstyle just gives me a headache and [spoiler] it doesn't get better when you have to play the game upside down [/spoiler]”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Solid Puzzle Platformer. Would have liked an in game overworld map or areas I've explored, so I can atleast retrace my steps without losing my bearings. Then again I played this at 3am, so if I was more awake it wouldn't bother me as much.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Fantastic short platformer combined with a learn-as-you-go puzzler. Absolutely brilliant level design that you appreciate more and more as you go and learn the additional mechanics”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:26 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch 1.1.1
Slightly tweaked the geometry in two rooms to make the rooms clearer Fixed an event's timing being inconsistent Prevented players from exiting to the menu after triggering the ending sequence
March DLC is out now!
Leap Year: March continues the adventure for players who have beaten Leap Year and want an even greater challenge. To celebrate the release, Leap Year is 30% off for the next week! Use the same tools
Patch 1.1.0
Added content for March DLC (which will be available in a few hours!!) Redesigned title screen slightly to make room for DLC Added a flag and moved another in a late game area Added spikes to prevent
Patch 1.0.7
Improved Spanish localization Improved the visibility of a particular shortcut Fixed a bug where a pixel-perfect landing could prevent dying
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Exploration · Precision Platformer · 2D Platformer · Puzzle-Platformer · Metroidvania · Puzzle · Platformer · 2D · Nonlinear · Action · Hand-drawn · Pixel Graphics (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Spanish - Spain * , Japanese * , Simplified Chinese * , Spanish - Latin America * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 19 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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