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A Virus Named TOM

Misfits Attic · 2012-08-01

Steam

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

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.

0
playing now
56%
positive of 749 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
45/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
24h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 39% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 30k–60k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 749 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)

Players online

202026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 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

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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

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.

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