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BZZZT

KO.DLL · CINEMAX GAMES · 2023-11-13

SteamGOG

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 13, 2023 (Linux), Nov 13, 2023 (Mac), Nov 13, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 19, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

Become a tiny ZX8000 robot and begin your journey through a beautiful, pixel-art world inspired by games iconic to the platformer genre. Follow a cute story, upgrade your skills, beat challenging levels, and compete with other players for the fastest speedrun!

BZZZT is an Action and Indie game released in 2023, priced at $11.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 1181 reviews).

5
playing now
95%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
7h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Bzzzt is a platform game developed by Karel Matějka (KO.DLL) and published in 2023 for macOS, Linux, Windows, and Nintendo Switch. The player controls a small robot in a futuristic environment, mimicking 8-bit arcade video games.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 5 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 82 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (473 reviews).
  • · Top 14% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 24k–53k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,181 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.99-75%
GOG$2.99-75%
Steam$3.59-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-11-17) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 87 of 112 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
33133120232026Week of 2023-11-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 331 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 138 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 5 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
132Nov 2023Aug 2026Nov 2023 — avg 13 · peak 39Dec 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15Jan 2024 — avg 4 · peak 16Feb 2024 — avg 3 · peak 13Mar 2024 — avg 3 · peak 15Apr 2024 — avg 7 · peak 33May 2024 — avg 2 · peak 8Jun 2024 — avg 4 · peak 11Jul 2024 — avg 5 · peak 20Aug 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11Sep 2024 — avg 3 · peak 12Oct 2024 — avg 4 · peak 14Nov 2024 — avg 6 · peak 21Dec 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Jan 2025 — avg 5 · peak 18Feb 2025 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2025 — avg 4 · peak 15Apr 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12Jun 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Dec 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Jan 2026 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 9
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$11.99$2.992023-11-132026-10-142023-11-13 — best price $9.592023-12-11 — best price $11.992024-01-22 — best price $11.992024-02-26 — best price $7.792024-04-05 — best price $10.692024-04-20 — best price $10.692024-05-30 — best price $9.592024-06-19 — best price $7.192024-07-26 — best price $10.692024-08-26 — best price $5.992024-10-12 — best price $11.992024-11-18 — best price $11.992024-12-19 — best price $4.552025-01-30 — best price $11.992025-03-13 — best price $4.192025-05-08 — best price $4.192025-06-18 — best price $3.592025-08-15 — best price $11.992025-09-25 — best price $5.992025-10-28 — best price $4.192025-12-20 — best price $9.592026-02-04 — best price $3.592026-03-12 — best price $11.992026-04-18 — best price $9.592026-06-16 — best price $11.992026-07-23 — best price $11.992026-08-22 — best price $2.992026-08-30 — best price $2.992026-09-07 — best price $2.992026-09-15 — best price $2.992026-09-23 — best price $11.992026-10-01 — best price $2.992026-10-09 — best price $11.992026-10-14 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1902026-05-30 — 2 pageviews2026-06-03 — 3 pageviews2026-06-07 — 1 pageviews2026-06-11 — 11 pageviews2026-06-15 — 9 pageviews2026-06-19 — 19 pageviews2026-06-23 — 10 pageviews2026-06-27 — 1 pageviews2026-07-01 — 7 pageviews2026-07-05 — 1 pageviews2026-07-09 — 11 pageviews2026-07-13 — 6 pageviews2026-07-17 — 15 pageviews2026-07-21 — 2 pageviews2026-07-25 — 4 pageviews2026-07-29 — 6 pageviews2026-08-02 — 8 pageviews2026-08-06 — 0 pageviews2026-08-10 — 1 pageviews2026-08-14 — 2 pageviews2026-08-18 — 3 pageviews2026-08-22 — 3 pageviews2026-08-26 — 4 pageviews2026-08-30 — 5 pageviews2026-09-03 — 4 pageviews2026-09-07 — 2 pageviews2026-09-11 — 7 pageviews2026-09-15 — 5 pageviews2026-09-19 — 2 pageviews2026-09-23 — 7 pageviews2026-09-27 — 1 pageviews2026-10-01 — 5 pageviews2026-10-05 — 3 pageviews2026-10-08 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
89.6%
earned "My First Jump"
19.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Cloud1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, Czech, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, German, Swedish, Turkish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-11-13 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,2687%25
Switch (Nintendo)780%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteFunnyActionColorfulDifficultControllerFast-PacedPlatformerSoundtrack

Census log

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

Recent updates

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