The Game Census
Canabalt cover art

Canabalt

Finji · 2015-04-30

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

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.

0
playing now
88%
positive of 307 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
IGDB user rating (23 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 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

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 53% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
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 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 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

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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

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

Player tags

2DIndieActionCasualRunnerPlatformerSingleplayerSide ScrollerPixel GraphicsGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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