The game was published in 2010 by Kosmos in Germany and later as SOS Octopus in France.
[1] Within the game the players take the role as an expedition team in a sea region where an octopus father lives with his son.
The game concept is based on a Concentration where the players have to remember animal chips in the sea area mode combined with a phase of luck while the tentacle swings.
In 2010 it won the German board game award on children's games (Deutscher Kinderspiele Preis)[2] and was nominated to the critics' prize Kinderspiel des Jahres.
[3] In the next year it won the French As d'Or – Jeu de l'Année enfant as SOS Octopus and was nominated to the Danish Guldbrikken Award in 2012.