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Brainfuck Challenge

Lyric Law · 2025-07-13

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 13, 2025 (Mac), Jul 13, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 13, 2025 (Linux)

A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck. Learn its rules, solve clever challenges, and even run your code in an external terminal.

98%
positive of 54 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 61% of 13,105 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 54 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 2 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520252026Week of 2025-07-13: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-06: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$2.392025-07-132026-07-092025-07-13 — best price $2.692025-07-23 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $2.692025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.392026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $2.392026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

Census log

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

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