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Prodigal
Journey through a vibrant world fighting vicious monsters, exploring puzzling dungeons, and collecting magical artifacts. Unravel the mysteries of Vann's Point and bond with all of its curious townsfolk!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“7/10 A true homage to the Game Boy classic, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Although the two games shares many similarities, there are differences: Prodigal is far more compact: outside of dungeons, reaching the furthest places takes 15 seconds or less (while running).…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“This is a solid game, more puzzle-oriented compared to the more traditional take on top-down Zelda-likes. It starts out a bit slower, but has just the right amount of things to do and places to explore for a 6-8 hour run. Plus, there are plenty of things I'm seeing to encourage…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“zelda-like, more focussed on puzzle than combat”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:32 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Prodigal 1.8 - OOPS... We Lied!
Prodigal 1.8 - OOPS... We Lied! New Trailer on YouTube: I know we said we were done touching this game, but we just can't help ourselves. Wherever there are problems we want to fix them - and so, we a
Go Wishlist Curse Chapter: Dawnthief!
The next Colorgrave game has been revealed! Check out the new store page! Want to support? Go watch the teaser trailer and add the game to your wishlist - every one counts! Now for Curse Chapter: Dawn
CLOUD SAVING
☁️Cloud Saving is Coming to Prodigal!☁️ On August 19th, Cloud Saving will be enabled on Prodigal. Once it is enabled and if you have files on two different devices, make sure to first play on the devi
Veritus Demo
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, RPG |
| Player tags | Action-Adventure · Puzzle · Exploration · Story Rich · Action RPG · Pixel Graphics · Dungeon Crawler · Colorful · RPG · Loot · Top-Down · Minigames (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 40 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.colorgrave.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+) and Windows 10 Processor: x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 324 MB available space