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Bad Sector HDD cover art

Bad Sector HDD

Dan Ruscoe · RTFM IT LLC · 2016-10-14

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 14, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Bad Sector is a game about immunizing a data storage device while a virus works against you.

Bad Sector HDD is a 2016 Casual and Indie title priced at $0.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 70 reviews).

0
playing now
93%
positive of 70 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 70 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-06-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820162026Week of 2016-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
230Oct 2016Jan 2022Oct 2016 — avg 4 · peak 29Dec 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Feb 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Oct 2018 — avg 3 · peak 58Dec 2018 — avg 1 · peak 19Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 9Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 8Nov 2021 — avg 23 · peak 203Jan 2022 — avg 15 · peak 172

▲ +1 avg players vs prior month — Jan 2022

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$0.99$0.492016-10-152026-07-092016-10-15 — best price $0.992016-12-22 — best price $0.842017-01-02 — best price $0.992018-06-21 — best price $0.492018-07-05 — best price $0.992018-10-29 — best price $0.492018-11-01 — best price $0.992018-11-21 — best price $0.492018-11-27 — best price $0.992018-12-20 — best price $0.492019-01-03 — best price $0.992019-06-26 — best price $0.492019-07-10 — best price $0.992020-06-25 — best price $0.492020-07-09 — best price $0.992020-12-22 — best price $0.492021-01-05 — best price $0.992021-11-24 — best price $0.492021-12-01 — best price $0.992021-12-22 — best price $0.492022-01-05 — best price $0.992026-06-25 — best price $0.492026-07-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
7.1%
earned "Disk Partitioner"
6.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasual

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.