The Game Census
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.

0
playing now
93%
positive of 70 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
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 2026-08-30 14:00 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 64% of 9,678 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

102026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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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