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Crackhead

· Displacement Studios · 2016-11-10

Steam

ViolentActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Co-operative

Releases: Nov 10, 2016 (Linux), Nov 10, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Come play the trip of your life. Or make it!

Crackhead is a Violent, Action, Casual and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $0.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (61% of 1104 reviews).

1
playing now
61%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 237 Violent games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 28k–66k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,104 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2017-12-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420172026Week of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.492016-11-112026-07-092016-11-11 — best price $1.792016-12-22 — best price $1.192017-01-12 — best price $0.502017-03-23 — best price $0.892017-06-01 — best price $0.592017-06-22 — best price $0.742017-07-06 — best price $6.992017-08-13 — best price $0.792017-10-26 — best price $0.592017-11-09 — best price $0.712017-12-17 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $0.992018-02-11 — best price $0.992018-02-19 — best price $0.992018-11-01 — best price $0.992018-11-28 — best price $0.992019-01-04 — best price $0.992019-02-12 — best price $0.992019-07-09 — best price $0.992019-12-03 — best price $0.992020-01-02 — best price $0.992020-07-09 — best price $0.992020-12-01 — best price $0.992021-01-05 — best price $0.992021-02-15 — best price $0.992021-07-08 — best price $0.992022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-02-03 — best price $0.992022-03-07 — best price $0.992022-07-07 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
10.6%
earned "CRACK EM"
6.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsIncludes level editorRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-09-07 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,46631%8

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

Player tags

FunnyIndieActionArcadeCasualViolentColorfulIsometricSexual ContentGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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