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Blocks That Matter

Swing Swing Submarine · 2011-08-19

SteamGOG

AdventureCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 02, 2011 (Linux), Aug 19, 2011 (Mac), May 12, 2011 (Xbox 360), Aug 19, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

When indie game developers Alexey and Markus are in trouble, their only hope comes from their creation.

0
playing now
78%
positive of 785 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
19h
to beat · completionist 25h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Blocks That Matter is a 2D puzzle-platform game developed by French independent studio Swing Swing Submarine. It was released on August 19, 2011 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Xbox 360. The game was inspired by one of the developer's earlier works, Tuper Tario Tros.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 34% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 31k–63k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 785 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2013-03-21) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 17 of 35 observed days · $4.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-15 — best price $1.292015-08-30 — best price $0.992015-12-08 — best price $4.992016-04-28 — best price $1.992016-10-04 — best price $1.242017-01-26 — best price $4.992017-07-10 — best price $4.992017-12-12 — best price $0.992018-06-22 — best price $1.492018-12-21 — best price $1.692019-07-08 — best price $2.492021-02-22 — best price $4.992021-07-19 — best price $4.992021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-02-14 — best price $2.492022-06-28 — best price $4.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-02-13 — best price $2.492023-07-17 — best price $2.492023-12-06 — best price $4.992024-02-06 — best price $4.992024-05-30 — best price $4.992024-08-07 — best price $4.992024-10-21 — best price $4.992024-11-26 — best price $1.992025-03-11 — best price $1.992025-06-18 — best price $1.992025-10-07 — best price $1.992025-12-11 — best price $1.992026-03-03 — best price $1.992026-06-04 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1902026-05-31 — 7 pageviews2026-06-03 — 4 pageviews2026-06-06 — 9 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1 pageviews2026-06-12 — 0 pageviews2026-06-15 — 10 pageviews2026-06-18 — 2 pageviews2026-06-21 — 1 pageviews2026-06-24 — 2 pageviews2026-06-27 — 9 pageviews2026-06-30 — 2 pageviews2026-07-03 — 19 pageviews2026-07-06 — 1 pageviews2026-07-09 — 2 pageviews2026-07-12 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 3 pageviews2026-07-18 — 2 pageviews2026-07-21 — 3 pageviews2026-07-24 — 4 pageviews2026-07-27 — 0 pageviews2026-07-30 — 6 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1 pageviews2026-08-05 — 4 pageviews2026-08-08 — 6 pageviews2026-08-11 — 3 pageviews2026-08-14 — 2 pageviews2026-08-17 — 3 pageviews2026-08-20 — 5 pageviews2026-08-23 — 1 pageviews2026-08-26 — 2 pageviews2026-08-28 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, French

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)14,7443%32

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

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyIndieLogicCasualPuzzleRobotsColorfulAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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