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The Mammoth: A Cave Painting
Tell the 5 million year story of the mammoth in 5 minutes.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“A very short free to play game with beautiful visuals and a sad story. I liked the narrator and the feels of the game. I may have gotten the bad ending, but it seems to be hard to get a 'good' ending in this one. Pros: +Fitting music +Nice graphics and colors. +Good story +Good…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Having studied rock art at university as part of an archaeology undergrad and being fascinated by the Caves at Lascaux, I wanted to give this game a try. It adheres to an ideal of conservation that I found appealing. This isn't the ritualistic, utopia of the hunter-gatheres and…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“During the short gameplay, my 3 year old kept asking about the baby mammoths. As soon as the credits appeared at the end he said "That was great!" *Would spontaneously teach a toddler about extinction again. System Info & Performance Report Operating System Ubuntu Linux 16.04…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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The Mammoth now in 25 languages!
Woah! That's a lot of languages! Thanks to all of our wonderful community translators for submitting their work! Many of the new languages aren't supported by Steam, but you can choose your language i
A Mammoth language update
The Mammoth now has subtitles for the following additional languages: Italian Russian Thai Danish Bulgarian Simplified Chinese Japanese Basque Turkish Catalan Czech Thanks to everybody who helped cont
A Mammoth language update
The Mammoth now has subtitles for the following additional languages: Italian Russian Thai Danish Bulgarian Simplified Chinese Japanese Basque Turkish Catalan Czech Thanks to everybody who helped cont
The Mammoth now available in even more languages!
Thanks to you, our amazing players, The Mammoth: A Cave Painting is now also available in Spanish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese and Serbian! If you would like to help us to translate our short free ga
The Mammoth now available in even more languages!
Thanks to you, our amazing players, The Mammoth: A Cave Painting is now also available in Spanish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese and Serbian! If you would like to help us to translate our short free ga
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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 | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Indie · Adventure · Casual · Action · Free to Play · Narration · Philosophical · Dynamic Narration · Atmospheric · Story Rich · Short · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Polish, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Turkish, Dutch, Korean, Ukrainian, Basque, Belarusian, Cat… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 1 |
| Official site | http://www.inbetweengames.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: 64-bit Windows 7 Processor: Dual-core Intel or AMD processor Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: DX10 compatible video card DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 500 MB available space