Pop drop: After a day’s delay, Poptropica’s Steam bundle is ready to play!
To get started, head on over to Pop’s page on Steam to purchase the game, then open up the Steam app (or download it if it’s your first time). If you’re playing on a Mac, you’ll also need to download Adobe AIR.

Interestingly, the price of the bundle seems to vary by region. If you’re in the US, where Poptropica is based, the bundle is US$19.99. Traveling by VPN, you can see how it varies only slightly in other Western countries (A$28.95 in Australia, ยฃ15.49 in the UK, CDN$22.79 in Canada; which is US$20.53, 19.48, and 17.82 respectively).
But you may be able to pick up the game at about half the cost in other parts of the world. In Hong Kong, I was able to get mine for HK$89 (US$11.34). Other countries are similar (R 130 in South Africa) or even cheaper (โน 529 in India, ARS$224.99 in Argentina) which is US$8.25, 6.82, and 1.88 respectively. As for why, we can only guess, but such pricing is generally tailored for the market value of local economies.

Those of us anticipating the game’s release were kept waiting a while, but it finally came out in the final hours of the expected day. The game was originally scheduled to release around 3 p.m. EST on Wednesday, May 25 according to Pop’s Steam page. Poptropica didn’t explain what caused the delay, but did tweet an apology around 8 p.m. EST. It was finally released about 1 a.m. EST on Thursday.
The Poptropica Steam bundle includes Realms as well as 17 islands (+1 if you count the tutorial, Snagglemast): Mythology (classic),ย Shrink Ray,ย Poptropolis Games,ย Monster Carnival,ย Time Tangled,ย Mystery of the Map,ย Virus Hunter,ย 24 Carrot,ย Galactic Hot Dogs,ย Mocktropica,ย Escape From Pelican Rock,ย Reality TV: Wild Safari,ย Timmy Failure, and all episodes ofย Survival,ย PoptropiCon,ย Arabian Nights, andย Mission Atlantisย โ also known as the AS3 islands, or the newer bunch of the old islands.๐ Playing requires an internet connection and logging into your account, which is connected to your desktop or mobile game.

Anyway, we’re off to play this Steam game! We’ll update more soon, so stay tuned. Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments!
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