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A Virus Named TOM

Misfits Attic · 2012-08-01

Steam

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 01, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 01, 2012 (Mac), Aug 01, 2012 (Linux), Apr 05, 2016 (PlayStation Vita)

Hack your way through brain scrambling puzzles while maneuvering through a thumb cramping maze of enemies.

A Virus Named TOM is an Action, Indie, Strategy game released in 2012, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 749 reviews).

0
playing now
56%
positive of 750 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
45/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
24h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

A Virus Named TOM is a puzzle game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and PlayStation Vita, though it was planned for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. It was developed by the independent American game developer Misfits Attic, and the PC versions were released worldwide on August 1, 2012. The PlayStation Vita version was released on April 5, 2016 as a part of the Instant Game Collection titles for PlayStation Plus.

Health check

Dormant
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 0 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · No new reviews since week of 2023-09-01.
  • · Top 17% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 30k–60k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 750 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2012-12-03) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120152026Week of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.492015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-11-25 — best price $4.992016-02-05 — best price $4.992016-05-17 — best price $6.992016-09-08 — best price $4.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-01-26 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-01-25 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-01-24 — best price $9.992019-05-27 — best price $9.992019-08-26 — best price $9.992019-12-19 — best price $2.492020-06-25 — best price $2.492020-12-22 — best price $2.492021-10-28 — best price $2.492021-12-22 — best price $2.492022-02-02 — best price $9.992022-02-28 — best price $2.492022-08-24 — best price $2.492022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $2.492023-06-29 — best price $2.492023-10-30 — best price $2.492023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-11-14 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-02-17 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

912026-05-30 — 4 pageviews2026-06-03 — 2 pageviews2026-06-07 — 3 pageviews2026-06-11 — 4 pageviews2026-06-15 — 4 pageviews2026-06-19 — 2 pageviews2026-06-23 — 6 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 3 pageviews2026-07-05 — 3 pageviews2026-07-09 — 4 pageviews2026-07-13 — 5 pageviews2026-07-17 — 4 pageviews2026-07-21 — 3 pageviews2026-07-25 — 9 pageviews2026-07-29 — 5 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1 pageviews2026-08-06 — 3 pageviews2026-08-10 — 2 pageviews2026-08-14 — 1 pageviews2026-08-18 — 2 pageviews2026-08-22 — 3 pageviews2026-08-26 — 4 pageviews2026-08-30 — 5 pageviews2026-09-03 — 5 pageviews2026-09-07 — 4 pageviews2026-09-11 — 4 pageviews2026-09-15 — 1 pageviews2026-09-19 — 5 pageviews2026-09-23 — 2 pageviews2026-09-27 — 5 pageviews2026-10-01 — 4 pageviews2026-10-05 — 5 pageviews2026-10-09 — 5 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
56.9%
earned "The Dog Days Are Over (SP)"
2.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing2 DLC

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2012-08-01, latest 2012-12-20 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)11,2881%47
PS Vita (PlayStation)83054%13

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCo-opIndieActionCasualPuzzleStrategyControllerLocal Co-OpSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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