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Grotto
Developer Brainwash Gang
Grotto is a walking simulator video game developed by Brainwash Gang and published by Digerati. It was released on October 26, 2021 for Windows. The game takes place in a mysterious unnamed fantasy world in which the player is an anonymous astrologer, or "Startamer", who moves into a mountain cave. The player is then pulled into the internal affairs of the Brute tribe as its members come to them for guidance,… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
294 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
91
LovedLoved
167 positive · 17 negative
95% range 86–94%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 167 | 17 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 10 | 0 | 97 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
252 of 276 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
91% recommend · 170 yes, 17 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 187 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (317 of 353 positive).
Players praise the game's unique focus on astrology and divination. [1][2][3] The story is described as compelling, emotional, and thought-provoking. [4][5][6]
Liked
Representative posts
- [12]
The game has both strong and weak points, but given the mostly good reviews marking this one as negative is more appropriate. There is an interesting narrative, weakened by several flaws, some of which might be deemed as fatal to certain players. The presentation is minimalistic, with 95% being spent in the same, rather small location. The story is told in a very monotonous, and unnecessarily slow way. A typical …
- [2]
Imagine combining the no-one-wins life-and-death decisions of the Trolley Problem with all the literal gotchas of a mischievous genie powered by a monkey paw. An entire tribe depends on your divinations, but you can only answer their questions with cryptic astrological signs. If it can go wrong, it will, and there is so much death. I finished in 6 hours, including both ending forks. I will definitely play again to …
- [5]
i planned on playing for maybe an hour tops before going to bed. played for five hours straight. am now sitting here crying, wondering if I could have done better for these people. If you want something to just engross yourself into and walk away with emotional damage, this will do the trick.
- [6]
♥♥♥♥... I can't believe such a game exists, in this game you have to make such hard choices, and you have to deal with the consequences. The game does a good job with connecting you with the characters, every character has their own personality, which can change depending on your actions. I just can't describe how blown away I was through the whole time I was playing it, I was completely immersed. This game is an …
- [1]
Never have I ever played a game that implements astrology to the point it becomes the main focus of the entire game. The story itself is also pretty extraordinary and your decisions actually make an impact. I lost any interest in the second half, though, as I didn't find the tribal story fun to read but each to their own I guess.
Summarised from 34 of the 280 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Grotto talk about unique and fresh concept with astrology as main focus; those who didn't talk about choices may feel illusory or have minor consequences. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Grotto was positively received by critics. Catharine Castle of Rock Paper Shotgun called its story a "compelling, ongoing tale of multiple power struggles, clashes of ideas and how to live a good and meaningful life in a small, close-knit community", saying that she was "hooked from start to finish", but described the constant back and forth of the cave as making the game feel tedious. She also criticized the game's relative linearity, making repeat playthroughs uninteresting. However, she praised the game for making her think deeply about words and language even despite the inconsequential nature of her choices. Mattia Pescitelli of Multiplayer.it wrote that it was difficult to empathize…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 294 · most liked firstFanart for a game that has none. Grotto
neutral · AI labelView post →🐸Goblet Grotto⚔️ #indiegames #frog #artsky Created for Indie Game Splash #01: megazumi-world.itch.io/indie-game-s...
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s Winter’s birthday, they are a genius and I’m so happy to know them and be making a video game with them and their gigantic mind. You should go join our mailing list at hotbrain.land about it and also play Goblet Grotto
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact Level 20 Leavanny appears in a Hidden Grotto in Black and White 2, but due to an oversight Poke Transporter bars it from Bank unless it levels up. Normally Swadloon evolves at 20 and then into Leavanny at 21+ via friendship. Maybe it'll become possible in a Legends game!
neutral · AI labelView post →Intriguing art, okay music, decent story. I recommend this, BUT with the following caveat: "Choices matter" and "Multiple ending" tags are not really accurate. This is a visual novel. There is the illusion of choice, but all roads very quickly head back to the middle.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →'THE MUSHROOM GROTTO' is a module for the award-winning tabletop RPG #mausritter with art by Me! I adore this game, so much so that my friend and I have made our own lil' adventure for it, and I am EXCEEDINGLY pleased with the result 🐁AVAILABLE NOW AT ITCH.IO🐁 tinyurl.com/3ae9pyxe #ttrpg #indierpg
neutral · AI labelView post →WE NEED MORE VTUBERS TO RAID 📢🎶 Are you SFW? Do you play retro games? Art streams? Fun collabs? Then the Game Grotto crew wants to raid you! Lately all of our friends are asleep when we end stream 😭 So if you are a vtuber drop your twitch link! #vtuber #VTuberUprising #vtuberSupport #twitch
neutral · AI labelView post →Hello #PortfolioDay I go by Grotto online. I am a mobile game animator looking to breakaway and become a freelance artist. I am open for commission over on vgen if you art interested in supporting me vgen.co/lonesomegrotto Or contact me via DM for other projects!
neutral · AI labelView post →The game has both strong and weak points, but given the mostly good reviews marking this one as negative is more appropriate. There is an interesting narrative, weakened by several flaws, some of which might be deemed as fatal to certain players. The presentation is minimalistic, with 95% being spent in the same, rather small location. The story is told in a very monotonous, and unnecessarily slow way. A typical scene starts off in darkness and the player walking around until that triggers…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Never have I ever played a game that implements astrology to the point it becomes the main focus of the entire game. The story itself is also pretty extraordinary and your decisions actually make an impact. I lost any interest in the second half, though, as I didn't find the tribal story fun to read but each to their own I guess.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nintendo sending in their most talented and promising dev teams to make the Kirby's Silly Shuffle – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Grambly's Grumbly Grotto game
neutral · AI labelView post →The dungeons in Link's Awakening are shorter than I remember. Bottle Grotto: I picked up 4 keys in the first minute and was already at the boss not long afterwards. I haven't gotten through a dungeon this fast since the very first Zelda game. Not a bad thing, really. #retrogaming #nintendo
positive · AI labelView post →Tony got to play his 1st game of 2025 tonight. A Together We Go/Dungeon Meshi hack by @davidjoneskrause.bsky.social called Grotto of the Gourmand. Getting to play with Lis, Grace & Tasha was amazing and the insights from just doing character creation were great.
neutral · AI labelView post →I hope you are all excited for a special stream announcement featuring Game Grotto's indie game in development, Mansion At Midnight, tonight in the Game Grotto!!! 6pm PST | 8pm CST See you there! #vtuber #indiegame #indiegamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Thanks everyone for stopping by! We finished the modeling and the texturing for this model, will animate it either Friday or the weekend! Thanks for the raids Game Grotto, flimsyfroggy, stereobass, and NyantieDoozie was nice to see you all and chat a bit!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Game Grotto through the years...It's changed a lot! I am proud of my work, getting our 3D scene into Warudo was a huge step for me! I love how much I can do with it bow though, it's super neat! #vtuber #unity #Warudo #poiyomi
neutral · AI labelView post →Game Grotto [UPGRADED] updates on Meg the Slime (me!) ☕️ I've wanted to add some more drip to the slime hair, and the face shape reflects my art style much better now. Next will be eyes and eyelashes! ✨️👀 #vtuber #3dvtuber #3dmodeling #vtuberdebut
neutral · AI labelView post →LOADING COMPLETE ✅ Join us TONIGHT in the Game Grotto for retro games and chatting all about our move and new house. Featuring our newly designed pre-debut models! See you in the chat Robofriends 💜 #vtuber #vtuberEN #gamedev #indie #twitch #pixelart
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW VTUBERS LOADED [ERROR] ⚠️ low resolution mode activated Game Grotto returns from moving hiatus 09.15.26 Retro gaming, new releases, FFXIV, art, and gamedev. Commentary from the view of husband and wife game devs Don't miss Don the Robot and Meg the Slime 📺 GGN #vtuber #vtuberEN #gamedev #twitch
neutral · AI labelView post →The tea grotto has been taken over! Oatmeal the Otter's Tea Outlet is a new OTTERly chaotic edition of my cosy game Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto I've also hidden a tiny otter on every page! innocentgoblin.itch.io/grotty-gobbo...
neutral · AI labelView post →Game Grotto will be joining the Vtuber Summer Slam once again this year! This event brought to you by @gamersoutreach.org is one near and dear to our heart, as it is a huge reason we make video games! Save the date, and stay tuned for more info! #VTSS2026 #vtuber #gamedeveloper
neutral · AI labelView post →This afternoon in the Game Grotto NEW modles! New microphones! New sub badges and channel point redeems! It's debut time. See you there 🤖☕️ 12pm PST / 2pm CST #Vtuber #Vtubers #3dvtuber
neutral · AI labelView post →Grossly Underrated VN/choose your own adventure game. I learned I do not actually hate VN/Choose your own adventure games like this. I just got exposed to some really lack luster ones that colored my view against the genre.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Card art I did for Grotto Beasts (Jerma's trading card game)! :^D
neutral · AI labelView post →Changes to tonight's stream: Instead of Ys VIII, I will be streaming Quartet's Gluhender's Grotto update They say up to 90 mins game play.. So the stream will be 5 hrs long 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →At first glance, the game is quite simple. And yet, I feel like there is so much more to this, the story is compelling and unique, pulling you in slowly with interesting characters and the consequence of your choices. Each character feels and looks interesting with small details changing as the story goes. It's incredible how much they did with only 2D sprites, I'll gladly play it again to get all the achievements and soak up as much as I can. Finally, the music, Beicoli also worked on this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Saturday, 3pm PST 💒 Mr. and Mrs. Game Grotto are getting married all over again. Please, come be our guest. See you there Robofriends 💌 #FFXIV #EternalBonding #vtuber #wedding #3dvtuber #warudo
neutral · AI labelView post →Imagine combining the no-one-wins life-and-death decisions of the Trolley Problem with all the literal gotchas of a mischievous genie powered by a monkey paw. An entire tribe depends on your divinations, but you can only answer their questions with cryptic astrological signs. If it can go wrong, it will, and there is so much death. I finished in 6 hours, including both ending forks. I will definitely play again to try different paths and outcomes. The game was immensely fun, incredibly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It manifests for Misago just like in the game: the initial dream on the boat on his way to Limsa and then his first vision at Seasong Grotto. He only learns when visiting Elpis that Venat has been watching over him his whole life and that it didn't manifest with the Calamity or 🔽 #MisagoLore
neutral · AI labelView post →🌟ANNOUNCEMENT 🌟 Streaming will be limited due to Game Grotto relocation! Please look forward to it, and we'll see you all very soon!
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Halloween! the mansion calls you...🎃 To the Game Grotto! TONIGHT Indie game Mansion At Midnight Key artwork debut with work by @verycherrii.bsky.social featured clips from our BETA testers gameplay and behind the scenes on development 6pm PDT | 8pm CST #indiegame #gamedev #twitch
neutral · AI labelView post →This week in the Game Grotto Join us weeknights for more retro point and click games, art streams, and some Mario Kart World with chat! See you there! 🤖💜☕️ #vtuber #gamedev #art #twitch
neutral · AI labelView post →"whats a game you like that ive never heard of" interpreting this as a question of obscurity. i am secretly obsessed with a game called Goblet Grotto. it came out in 2012 and i've never seen anybody talk about it even once. its extremely difficult to explain w neospring.org/+r/137648087...
positive · AI labelView post →This week in the Game Grotto... Streaming weeknights at 6pm PST full schedule details below! See you all in the chat 🤖💜☕️ #vtuber #twitch #schedule 🎨 by @magnanum.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's schedule here in the Game Grotto! We hope to see you there 🎄 #vtuber #twitch #schedule
neutral · AI labelView post →Bluesky initiation for #vtubers! Quote one art piece to promote yourself 🤖💜☕️ Gamedevs and vtubers, in the Game Grotto! Art by yours truly, 🎨🖌
neutral · AI labelView post →I doomed a whole culture to save... you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This week in the Game Grotto Celebrating Cranberri's Birthday with her and another attempt at PEAK! We continue Kingdom of the Night, and are joining a dance party happening at the GGN FC in FFXIV 👀 You won't want to miss it - see you in the chat! #PEAK #indiegames #vtuber #twitch #ffxiv
neutral · AI labelView post →Well, I guess just to list off who I watch frequently, kinda sorted into categories: TTRPG: * Critical Role - Really famous. Live-play of TTRPGs. It's really a huge investment of time to keep up with it, though. Just people I have parasocial relarionships with: * Any Austin - Kinda "philosophy of gaming" is how I'd describe his latest content. I've been a huge fan of his for many many years and am way more invested in *him* than the content he currently makes. But he's really fascinating.…
neutral · AI labelView post →Late night sneak peek of my other in-dev game: Grave Grotto Grave Grotto is going to be a farming sim dungeon crawler, being inspired by games like Stardew Valley and Enter the Gungeon! Crops will contribute to the dungeon, and vice versa! More info to come soon, stay tuned... #indiegame #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is the first game I've played in years that had a story I felt was worth seeing through. The ability to influence others in ways you can't even begin to imagine with just a single conversation is a feeling I've felt in my own life, and the chaos of watching others interpret meaning out of your words can make one hesitant to give advice. If you've ever given someone advice, watched them take that advice, and then watched for years wishing you hadn't, then this is a game that will…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i planned on playing for maybe an hour tops before going to bed. played for five hours straight. am now sitting here crying, wondering if I could have done better for these people. If you want something to just engross yourself into and walk away with emotional damage, this will do the trick.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sorry I took like four years to actually start playing you Grotto. I was not familiar with your game.
positive · AI labelView post →I've begun to take it as a badge of honour that Blue Prince hates me. I started with gifts from 4 tomorrow rooms. The game quickly put paid to those. And yet, having drafted Boiler off Laboratory, I opened the Grotto! Then, even dealing with Weight Room and Darkroom, I got Laundry! Star treatment!
neutral · AI labelView post →Some EPIC announcements in the Game Grotto! We reached 1.6k followers and are well on our way to our HUGE milestone of 2k! Check out the whole post on our Discord, The Game Grotto Network 📺 discord.gg/86dvxUzzky #vtuber #twitch #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →If concepts like divination, the limitations of language, the clash of cultures, religious beliefs and the afterlife spark your interest: please, go play this one!! The player, as an impartial soothsayer, will take part in how a strange society forced to change develops, as its members turn to you in search of direction. Not only what you say will have an impact on them, but also how you say it and how well you employ the limited words that the stars grant you to deliver your message as…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2/10 its like a visual novel where you give people stars and they assume what you want them to do based off the stars
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game made me feel emotions I didn't know existed. 10/10 highly recommend. Be aware that this is interactive fiction and not a game in the traditional sense. If you go in expecting something more, you will likely leave disappointed, or perhaps pleasantly surprised. If, like me, you enjoy the interactive fiction experience, this is an excellent entry in the genre. Also, big kudos to the person who voiced the narrator.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The tags for this game are false, and I fell for them. There is absolutely no replay value, and none of your choices mean anything.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Itch] More than a hundred little indie freebies. I don't know if there have just been a load of game jams recently or if everyone's feeling extra spooky for the Halloween sale, but there's a frankly ridiculously large number of games being given away in the next couple of days: * [CREAK](https://ji10-games.itch.io/creak), indie horror * [Snowpine Strangers](https://fenixapple.itch.io/snowpine-strangers-demo), indie horror * [CIVIMAX](https://bolodev.itch.io/civimax), incremental village sim *…
neutral · AI labelView post →play shape game, it has The Lesbian Grotto ™️
neutral · AI labelView post →Been making some steady progress, but the later sections of this game have really upped the difficulty. I had to take some time to grind out some levels here in the Glittering Grotto. 🧊 Managed to get through and now have 2 of the 3 stones I need to power up Mornstar, though!
neutral · AI labelView post →And yet, there is ONE other game like that... Grotto is a game about being a cave-dwelling soothsayer, serving a tribe of particularly scrunkly furries. People visit you, asking you to divine the constellations for meaning. While the stars do have meaning, what you TELL them is up to you. 90% off.
neutral · AI labelView post →ur nightmares are bleeding into reality in the chinese psychological horror game The Grotto Diary
neutral · AI labelView post →For single play experience, it is good. For replayability and getting achievements, it sucks. PROS + interesting premise + good story and writing + nice graphic and sound CONS - no character(s) voice - many decisions have minor or no consequences - the "gameplay" is too slow - achievements requiring replaying the game over and over, with the slogfest speed of gameplay save scumming is the only reasonable option
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excluding using magic to gaslight the people and speaking with the dead, the story is a very grounded portrayal of how brutal tribalism was and how changing society for the better was equally violent, albeit necessary and for the good of the people. Has a unique gameplay element of having a limited number of times you can essentially say "yes" and "no" but I later learned you can recharge those times, so I think the constellation gameplay can be expanded upon exponentially for another…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(explanation: "Fungal Grotto" is also the name of one of the earliest group dungeons in the greater Ebonheart Pact region of ESO's base game)
neutral · AI labelView post →This week in the Game Grotto 🎨 by Me and background by @verycherrii.bsky.social 💜 See you all for the spooky week lineup in the Game Grotto and the other GGN broadcasters' streams! #vtuber #indiegame #gamedev #Halloween #MansionAtMidnight
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is a great experience, the best and only way to really grasp the story of the game is playing it, and i couldnt recommend it more, the story itself is excellent, which makes sense for a visual novel, but the soundtrack and art are also things to admire here, the characters are my favorite thing in this game. But if you are not fond of choose your adventure visual novels, or games that require a lot of reading, this game isn't for you. But if you are into this kind of game than you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The "Dripping Grotto" from Wish of the West. An early game dungeon filled with shimmering pathways, glowing mushrooms, and pointed stalagmites. #bladeofacrimony #pixelart #rpgmaker #rpg
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