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Chip's Challenge 1 cover art

Chip's Challenge 1

Niffler Ltd. · 2015-05-28

Steam

ActionAdventureStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 28, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Before Chip can join the Bit Busters computer club and hang out with the girl of his dreams, Melinda the Mental Marvel, he must solve all 144 challenging puzzles. Your bird's-eye view can help Chip rush through the puzzles and mazes before he's deleted by monsters, traps and the passage of time.

10
playing now
90%
positive of 969 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

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

Chip's Challenge is a top-down tile-based puzzle video game originally published in 1989 by Epyx as a launch title for the Atari Lynx. It was later ported to several other systems and was included in the Windows 3.1 bundle Microsoft Entertainment Pack 4 (1992), and the Windows version of the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack (1995), where it found a much larger audience.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 35% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2017-03-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

2282026-08-11 18:00 — 19 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 9 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 11 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 16 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 12 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 13 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 14 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 10 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 19 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 17 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 15 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 16 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 12 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 11 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 13 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 13 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 14 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 22 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 19 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 13 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 19 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 13 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 18 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 9 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 16 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 12 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 10 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.002015-05-292020-09-212015-05-29 — best price $1.992015-06-22 — best price $1.992015-11-02 — best price $1.992015-12-01 — best price $1.992016-01-04 — best price $1.992016-02-12 — best price $1.992016-07-04 — best price $1.992016-11-01 — best price $1.992016-11-14 — best price $1.992016-11-29 — best price $1.992017-01-02 — best price $1.992017-04-03 — best price $1.992017-07-05 — best price $1.992017-11-01 — best price $1.992017-11-29 — best price $1.992018-01-04 — best price $1.992018-04-02 — best price $1.992018-07-05 — best price $1.992018-10-08 — best price $1.992018-11-01 — best price $1.992018-11-27 — best price $1.992018-12-10 — best price $1.992019-01-04 — best price $1.992019-05-06 — best price $1.992019-07-09 — best price $1.992020-01-02 — best price $1.992020-01-27 — best price $1.992020-07-09 — best price $1.992020-09-21 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5.2k572026-06-01 — 139 pageviews2026-06-04 — 110 pageviews2026-06-07 — 106 pageviews2026-06-10 — 141 pageviews2026-06-13 — 69 pageviews2026-06-16 — 86 pageviews2026-06-19 — 102 pageviews2026-06-22 — 512 pageviews2026-06-25 — 658 pageviews2026-06-28 — 186 pageviews2026-07-01 — 159 pageviews2026-07-04 — 110 pageviews2026-07-07 — 127 pageviews2026-07-10 — 94 pageviews2026-07-13 — 101 pageviews2026-07-16 — 81 pageviews2026-07-19 — 94 pageviews2026-07-22 — 88 pageviews2026-07-25 — 95 pageviews2026-07-28 — 86 pageviews2026-07-31 — 87 pageviews2026-08-03 — 65 pageviews2026-08-06 — 87 pageviews2026-08-09 — 109 pageviews2026-08-12 — 101 pageviews2026-08-15 — 96 pageviews2026-08-18 — 104 pageviews2026-08-21 — 93 pageviews2026-08-24 — 109 pageviews2026-08-27 — 195 pageviews2026-08-29 — 84 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
79.8%
earned "First Five"
4.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,9193%24

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

Player tags

2DLogicRetro1990'sArcadePuzzleRebootSokobanStrategyTop-Down

Census log

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

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