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Lyca
A small, relaxing, incremental game about restoring a barren wasteland into a lush meadow. Help the magical wolf Lyca run through the land, gather resources, and unlock a vast upgrade tree.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“This is a mehvote - neither recommend nor downvote. For its price it's fine. I like that compared to similar games, you fill the space rather than destroy things in it. But besides that, it's kind of unbalanced. The second challenge (filling the field with grass) never triggered…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Nice, short incremental/ idle game! It doesn't force you to re-buy upgrades by wiping your progress, with the 'prestiege' system instead increasing your health drain, for the trade-off of giving you more resources. It starts off very active and manual, and slowly through…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Despite having a mildly decent time with this game, I can't actually recommend it. There's nothing that Lyca does that's terribly wrong, but the things it does correctly didn't interest me either. It's pleasant to look at, and it has all the trappings you need to have in an…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 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 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
v1.3.0 update
Hey everyone! Thanks to Felix, we're pushing another update for Lyca that improves things significantly under the hood: - Performance overhaul: The terrain system has been reworked into a tile-based s
Major Update: CATS!
Hi everyone! It's been a while since the last update, and I'm really excited to share that Lyca has surpassed over 30,000 players in its lifetime! It's been amazing to see how far this tiny game has c
Lyca - 4 Months later
Hey everyone! It's been a while, I wanted to make a check-in post to celebrate the success of the game and show my appreciation to you all for it! Lyca released exactly 4 months ago on April 7, and I
Major Update: Performance and Skins
Hey everyone! Thank you for your patience, I'm excited to say that a major update for the game is live now! This update includes: 1. A substantial optimization patch: I was pretty much at my wits end
1 Month of Lyca
Hey everyone, It's been 1 month since Lyca released on Steam! In this last month, the game has surpassed all my expectations and I'm really humbled by the response. Thank you everyone for playing the
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Incremental · Casual · Idler · Relaxing · Simulation · Management · Retro · Strategy · Colorful · Resource Management · Capitalism · Economy (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Thai |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 12 |
| Official site | https://www.syphono4.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 or higher Processor: 2 GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Storage: 100 MB available space