Drop Alive

Drop Alive

Invi Games · December 6, 2016 · Free to Play, Cute, Indie, Platformer, Casual

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About Drop Alive

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Help a water droplet escape a house and return to her river by shifting between liquid, solid, and gas states to navigate past creative obstacles across 12 handcrafted levels. This charming puzzle-platformer combines deceptively difficult challenges with beautiful hand-illustrated visuals and an exclusive soundtrack that appeals to players of all ages.

An adventurous and curious water drop is trapped inside a house and needs your help to get back to the place she truly belongs to; a nearby glistening river. Climb a pile of jars, squeeze yourself through pipes and manage to get past a fridge full of stalactites without bursting. Use your wit to change from one state to another (liquid, solid and gas) surpassing every obstacle thrown your way as the game’s difficulty increases.

Drop Alive combines all the right ingredients; entertainment, challenge, an exclusive soundtrack and the beauty and charm of heartwarming, handmade illustrated scenarios, an experience both adults and children will forever enjoy and cherish.

Main Features


  • Have fun as you navigate through 12 different levels, each with an aesthetic and peculiarity of its own!
  • Original Drop Alive exclusive music. Delight yourself with a warm and fun soundtrack of over 10 themes!
  • Collectables, Achievements, Cards and Full controller support.
  • Alternate between 3 different states; liquid, solid and gas, to overcome every obstacle thrown your way.
  • Leaderboards. Challenge your friends!
  • Warning (as in "don’t say we didn’t warn you"): Do not, by any means, let this cute little fellow fool you. Drop Alive ain’t as easy as it seems.
  • 12 unique unlockable Skins!
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    Drop Alive — game info

    Platforms
    Windows
    Steam Deck
    Verified
    Player modes
    Single-player
    Controller
    Full controller support
    PC Game Pass
    Not included

    DLC & expansions

    What Steam players say

    Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

    Recommended Aug 20, 2026
    Drop Alive takes a wonderfully simple premise and develops it into a charming puzzle-platforming adventure centered on an adventurous water droplet trying to escape a house and return to a nearby river. Developed by Invi Games and published by Ipsilon Developments, it immediately establishes a playful personality through its hand-drawn presentation and unusual protagonist. The story itself remains deliberately uncomplicated, allowing the journey and environmental challenges to become the main attraction. Everyday household objects are transformed into enormous obstacles from the droplet's tiny perspective, creating an imaginative sense of scale that gives otherwise familiar locations a surprising amount of character. The defining gameplay mechanic is the ability to switch between three states of matter: liquid, solid, and gas. This is more than a visual gimmick because the different forms are incorporated directly into the platforming and puzzle design. Progress frequently depends on recognizing which state is suitable for the current obstacle rather than simply relying on jumping ability. The concept gives the adventure its own identity and provides a logical connection between t…
    Recommended Aug 18, 2026
    Drop Alive is a cute little platform game where I play as a water drop trying to make my way through a house and eventually reach a nearby river. The idea is simple, but I actually like how much the game builds around being made of water. I can move through the levels, avoid hazards and change between liquid, solid and gas forms depending on what I need to get past. It is the sort of game that looks very harmless at first, but some of the later sections can be surprisingly awkward and difficult. The different forms are easily my favourite part. As a liquid I can move normally, while ice lets me deal with certain surfaces and steam gives me a completely different way of moving through the level. I have to pay attention to the environment because water, heat and other objects can change what state I am in. I like that the game does not just give me three forms for the sake of having three forms. They are actually tied into the level design, so I have to think about which state is useful before I move forward. There are 12 levels and each one has its own look and hazards, which helps keep the short adventure from feeling completely repetitive. I am dealing with things like jars, pip…
    Recommended Jul 11, 2026
    cute nice platformer game its very simple and the idea of ice and exhausted cloud gameplay is nice adding more levels can make it a good small price platformer game
    Recommended Jun 25, 2026
    super fun game, was cute and i enjoyed the music. 10/10 would play again
    Recommended Jun 12, 2026
    The cutest drop in the river!
    Recommended May 12, 2026
    Yeah, its cool... and the art is beautiful! It is pretty challenging to collect everything at times.

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