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As an interstellar custodian, clean a polluted alien ocean, recycle debris into gear, and raise creatures shaped by their diet.
Released 16 Nov 2023
Bubble-Gun Ocean Cleanup
Recycle Trash for Upgrades
Raise Diet-Shaped Critters
Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!
Developed by Moon Lagoon · Published by Secret Mode
You play an interstellar custodian sent to GUP-14, an ocean planet polluted and abandoned by a corporation. Explore its waters and sunken ruins while uncovering clues about what happened there.
Clear debris and different kinds of pollution with specialized tools, collect the waste, and return it to be recycled. Manage your oxygen as you work through the planet’s biomes, and use recycled materials to craft useful equipment and upgrades.
Care for the planet’s axolotl-like loddles by cleaning them and feeding them aquatic fruit. Their diet affects how they grow and what traits they develop. Restore local flora and ecosystems as you make the biomes more habitable for their creatures.
Players often enjoy the calm, low-pressure pace and the satisfying feeling of cleaning polluted areas and watching them regain color and life. Many also praise the cute, personable loddles and the steady equipment progression. Some reviewers find the cleanup repetitive, the creature-breeding systems limited or unclear, and the overall experience shorter than they hoped.
Loddlenaut is an ocean cleanup adventure set on a vibrant alien planet. Play as an interstellar custodian who is tasked with cleaning up the pollution left behind by a spacefaring mega-corporation. Befriend local axolotl-like creatures and explore sunken corporate ruins as you revive the planet’s lush ecosystems.
🚀 Explore an open-world alien planet
🐠 Raise aquatic critters called “loddles” that grow based on what they eat
🔫 Clean up icky goop and floating debris with your bubble gun
🌟 Unlock special gadgets to clean different types of ocean pollution
🛠️ Recycle collected trash to craft useful items and upgrades
Your mission: Clean up the ocean planet of GUP-14 after it was abandoned by GUPPI, a mega-corporation that makes and sells everything from soda to spaceships. When you first arrive on the planet, you’ll find yourself amid murky waters, oil spills, and scattered junk.
Within the polluted environments, you’ll find remnants of GUPPI’s buildings, ships, and machinery all sunken to the ocean floor. Discover clues about the planet’s past inhabitants as you clean up the mess they left behind using an assortment of high-tech gadgets.
As you clean up the planet, you’ll run into axolotl-like aliens known as “loddles.” Protect them from the polluted waters and feed them aquatic fruits while you make their planet habitable again. Depending on their diet, loddles will grow in different ways and develop unique traits and abilities that will further enable them to survive on this polluted planet.
When the loddles are strong enough and the waters are cleaner, release them back into the wild and watch them thrive!
Explore an expanded planet with three new caves that each contain a lost loddle with a new rare cosmetic mutation! Delve even deeper to discover Goddle Grotto, a secret sixth biome that is home to three mythical Goddles. Make use of the new gardening system to collect seedlings, grow your own flora, and increase each biome's resistance to pollution. Plus, track the positions of all pollutants with the new Global Pollution Tracker, expand your backpack with the new Inventory Capacity Module, and acquire gold versions of your tools by completing different milestones that will ultimately unlock a modified ending cutscene.
Track your loddle evolutions and see which ones you’ve yet to discover. Plus enjoy a new loddle ability, new loddle personality traits, new biome diversity ratings, and a new way to boost around the ocean!
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 23 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 77/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
