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Canabalt cover art

Canabalt

Finji · 2015-04-30

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 14, 2012 (PlayStation Portable), Apr 30, 2015 (Linux), Apr 30, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 30, 2015 (Mac), Mar 14, 2012 (PlayStation 3), Mar 28, 2013 (Ouya)

Escape the destruction of your city with just one button! The game that popularized the infinite runner genre is back with two-player mode and new challenges.

Canabalt is an Action and Indie game released in 2015, priced at $2.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 307 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
89%
positive of 307 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
IGDB user rating (23 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Canabalt is a one-button endless runner designed by Adam Saltsman for the Experimental Gameplay Project in 2009. The 2D side-scrolling video game was originally written as a Flash game, then ported to iOS, Android, PlayStation Portable, Ouya, and HTML5. An authorized version for the Commodore 64 called C64anabalt was released on cartridge. Canabalt has been credited with popularizing the endless runner subgenre.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.7k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 307 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2016-11-23) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720152026Week of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.892015-05-012026-07-092015-05-01 — best price $2.992015-11-25 — best price $0.982016-01-04 — best price $2.992016-12-12 — best price $0.982017-01-02 — best price $2.992017-10-26 — best price $2.002017-11-28 — best price $2.992018-06-22 — best price $1.012018-11-01 — best price $2.992019-06-25 — best price $1.492019-12-03 — best price $2.992020-06-25 — best price $1.192020-12-01 — best price $2.992021-02-21 — best price $0.892021-07-08 — best price $2.992021-12-22 — best price $1.492022-07-07 — best price $2.992022-12-22 — best price $0.892023-03-23 — best price $2.992023-11-21 — best price $0.892024-01-04 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $0.892024-12-04 — best price $2.992025-02-10 — best price $1.492025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $1.492025-11-17 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $1.492026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

53172026-06-01 — 34 pageviews2026-06-05 — 43 pageviews2026-06-09 — 29 pageviews2026-06-13 — 32 pageviews2026-06-17 — 29 pageviews2026-06-21 — 20 pageviews2026-06-25 — 40 pageviews2026-06-29 — 17 pageviews2026-07-03 — 43 pageviews2026-07-07 — 37 pageviews2026-07-11 — 28 pageviews2026-07-15 — 35 pageviews2026-07-19 — 39 pageviews2026-07-23 — 31 pageviews2026-07-27 — 28 pageviews2026-07-31 — 36 pageviews2026-08-04 — 35 pageviews2026-08-08 — 39 pageviews2026-08-12 — 32 pageviews2026-08-16 — 31 pageviews2026-08-20 — 27 pageviews2026-08-24 — 25 pageviews2026-08-28 — 24 pageviews2026-09-01 — 31 pageviews2026-09-05 — 34 pageviews2026-09-09 — 44 pageviews2026-09-13 — 31 pageviews2026-09-17 — 34 pageviews2026-09-21 — 38 pageviews2026-09-25 — 45 pageviews2026-09-29 — 42 pageviews2026-10-03 — 43 pageviews2026-10-07 — 32 pageviews2026-10-10 — 22 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
49.9%
earned "A Dashing Entrance"
9.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play Together

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,6621%31

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

Player tags

2DIndieActionCasualRunnerPlatformerSingleplayerSide ScrollerPixel GraphicsGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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