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Leap Year

Leap Year

Daniel Linssen · released Jun 12, 2024

ActionAdventureIndiePCNintendo Switch

Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.

88
VGC Score
Stablehigh confidence
93%
At launch
97%
Steam all-time
n/a
Press
100%
Recent sentiment

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Review sentiment over time

Weekly positive-review rate (green) and review volume (bars). Dashed lines mark significant patches; the amber line is the start of the current scoring window. Hover the dots to see what drove a dip or a jump.

How this score was computed

The VGC Score is a weighted blend on a press-comparable 0-100 quality scale. Steam approval rates are first calibrated (95% positive on Steam ≈ 89.5 quality, since Steam approval skews high). Press and tracked creator reviews each count ~2x a player review and share one cap against player evidence (creator buy/skip calls pool into an approval rate, calibrated like Steam approval); all-time sentiment is capped and halved (it's context, not verdict); reviews of the current build carry the most weight when a fresh patch anchors the window; and a 'typical game' prior keeps small samples from pegging the scale. Because press reviews and Metacritic user aggregates describe the launch build, their weight decays as the game ages (3-year half-life after a 1-year grace). That's how a game that launched rough can outgrow its old reception once updates win players over. Reviews under 2h playtime (the refund window), non-Steam activations, and free copies are downweighted.

ComponentPositiveQuality (0-100)Weight (pseudo-reviews)
Press reviews (Metacritic)0
All-time Steam reviews97%921000
Metacritic user ratings0
Post-patch Steam reviews (trust-weighted)100%9716
Calibration prior (typical game)7250

Acclaim gate: the raw blend lands at 91.5, but scores above 88 must be earned in front of a mass audience; this verdict rests on 3,204 player reviews, a largely self-selected fanbase. As more players weigh in, the ceiling rises (full scale unlocks at 100,000 reviews).

Scoring window: last 30 days (no significant patch detected) · 47 reviews sampled · 47 total reviews in window · weighted 21.9 up / 0 down · computed 2h ago · full methodology →

Press & Creators reviews (2)

Individual verdicts from outlets we track: scored reviews first, most trusted outlets first among them. The small badge is each outlet's trust score: how well its scoring history aligns with players.

  • 83
    trust 71Jun 30, 2024

    Leap Year describes itself as a “clumsy platformer”, but don’t be fooled. Nor indeed put off. Developer Daniel Linssen is being mischievously modest, because beneath its clumsy presentation and opening gambits, this is anything but. It’s actually rather brilliant.

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  • 80
    trust 53Jan 12, 2026

    Succinct and meticulously ingenious, Leap Year gets straight to the point, offering pure puzzle platforming while focusing on transforming its apparent simplicity into pleasant surprises that play with the genre's most basic element: jumping.

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Patch history

  1. Patch 1.1.1
    Mar 7, 2025
  2. Patch 1.1.0
    Feb 28, 2025
  3. Patch 1.0.7
    Aug 12, 2024
  4. Patch 1.0.6
    Jul 17, 2024
  5. Patch 1.0.5
    Jul 2, 2024
  6. Patch 1.0.4
    Jul 1, 2024
  7. Patch 1.0.3
    Jun 29, 2024
  8. Patch 1.0.2
    Jun 25, 2024
  9. Patch 1.0.1
    Jun 15, 2024