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BLACKHOLE

FiolaSoft Studio · Fulqrum Publishing · 2015-02-27

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 08, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Aug 08, 2017 (Xbox One), Feb 27, 2015 (Linux), Feb 27, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 27, 2015 (Mac)

BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition out now!

1
playing now
85%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Blackhole, stylized in all-caps, is a puzzle-platform game developed and published by independent Czech company FiolaSoft Studio. The developers worked with Let's Players and YouTubers on the script for the story and for building the characters. It was first released on February 27, 2015 for Microsoft Windows, followed by Linux and OS X on May 11, 2015.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 34% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 27k–64k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,062 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.89-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.89-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.63 at GameBillet (2025-11-21) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 115 of 169 observed days · $0.26 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-06 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.712015-02-282026-08-302015-02-28 — best price $14.992016-02-12 — best price $14.992016-09-08 — best price $2.242017-01-27 — best price $2.252017-07-10 — best price $2.242017-12-12 — best price $4.492018-05-08 — best price $8.992018-10-11 — best price $8.992019-01-21 — best price $2.252019-05-10 — best price $2.242019-09-09 — best price $7.352019-12-19 — best price $1.792020-03-16 — best price $1.792020-06-18 — best price $1.792020-09-28 — best price $8.992021-01-05 — best price $8.992021-04-08 — best price $1.792021-06-28 — best price $1.702021-09-24 — best price $1.532021-12-22 — best price $1.472022-04-01 — best price $1.792022-07-11 — best price $7.162022-10-27 — best price $8.992023-01-10 — best price $7.822023-04-27 — best price $1.792023-07-29 — best price $8.992023-11-21 — best price $1.792024-03-06 — best price $7.432024-06-17 — best price $0.712024-09-16 — best price $0.892024-12-19 — best price $0.772025-03-22 — best price $8.992025-07-14 — best price $7.492025-10-15 — best price $0.772026-01-12 — best price $0.742026-04-05 — best price $8.992026-07-01 — best price $0.902026-08-30 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

9562026-05-29 — 67 pageviews2026-06-01 — 94 pageviews2026-06-04 — 16 pageviews2026-06-07 — 6 pageviews2026-06-10 — 16 pageviews2026-06-13 — 49 pageviews2026-06-16 — 28 pageviews2026-06-19 — 37 pageviews2026-06-22 — 43 pageviews2026-06-25 — 12 pageviews2026-06-28 — 10 pageviews2026-07-01 — 32 pageviews2026-07-04 — 20 pageviews2026-07-07 — 36 pageviews2026-07-10 — 55 pageviews2026-07-13 — 17 pageviews2026-07-16 — 78 pageviews2026-07-19 — 68 pageviews2026-07-22 — 29 pageviews2026-07-25 — 27 pageviews2026-07-28 — 25 pageviews2026-07-31 — 33 pageviews2026-08-03 — 42 pageviews2026-08-06 — 30 pageviews2026-08-09 — 34 pageviews2026-08-12 — 26 pageviews2026-08-15 — 24 pageviews2026-08-18 — 53 pageviews2026-08-21 — 23 pageviews2026-08-24 — 16 pageviews2026-08-26 — 53 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

45
achievements tracked
51.2%
earned "Spilled Coffee"
4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudStatsFamily Sharing4 DLC

7 supported languages: English, Czech, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, German, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,7501%45
PS4 (PlayStation)5515%40

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

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieSpaceActionComedyPuzzleSci-fiAdventureDifficult

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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