Alright. Scampr is done and dusted. You play as an alien scientist taking the form of a squirrel who is tasked with trying to replicate Earth as remembered by a goldfish. As you can imagine, the goldfish’s memories snd perception might be a tad skewed. Said goldfish is also lost though, and so one of your tasks will be to find the goldfish. You’re not going to really get any of this from the game itself, so it’s good the devs decided to set up the world’s story in the product description, lol.

Things skewed by the goldfish’s recollections include acorns being able to create giraffes and unpetrify creatures, whales flying and being rideable, mushrooms making music, fish flying, and so on. The sealife flying does make sense from a fish’s perspective though, lol.

Anyway, you, an alien scientist squirrel, have a shopping list of objectives, from exploring caves to taking a train through the map, to the aforementioned riding whales, and so on. Plus, don’t forget that you need to find the goldfish. Once completed, you will be airlifted off the map by a blimp.

The graphics are particularly nice in this game. There is a weird bit of motion blur while distant assets render in, but yeah. The OST was pleasant, but not particularly noteworthy. And the littke squirrel sounds were kind of funny.

As you can imagine, the game doesn’t take itself very serious. It’s a (fast) walking simulator through and through, with a cool playscape to run/climb/jump around in.

Although I’d consider this unsupported on the Steam Deck, a bit of key mapping makes it completely playable. The game kept almost wanting to stutter, sitting on the cusp of doing so a few times, and the FPS wavered periodically, but nothing actually happened.

I received this license via my Robilar’s Reviews curator program. I would consider the $3.99 price tag to be fair. It took me about two hours to complete. I do note that the average playtime seems to be more like four hours, but I’m not really sure why this is. As it stands though, it’s a fun and charming playscape with a pretty unique premise. I’d give it a look.