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Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time cover art

Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time

Toys for Bob · Activision · 2022-10-18

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Franchise: Crash Bandicoot · Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 26, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 02, 2020 (Xbox One), Mar 11, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 12, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Mar 12, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Oct 02, 2020 (PlayStation 4)

It’s About Time - the critically-acclaimed Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It's About Time is now on Steam!

66
playing now
86%
positive of 4.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
86/100
critic score (16 outlets, IGDB)
82/100
IGDB user rating (144 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$39.99
steam price (US)

66 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is a 2020 platform game developed by Toys for Bob and published by Activision. It was originally released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with releases for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows following in 2021. The eighth main installment in the Crash Bandicoot series, the game's story follows Crash Bandicoot and his sister Coco as they recover the all-powerful Quantum Masks in a bid to prevent Doctor Neo Cortex and Doctor Nefarious Tropy from taking over the multiverse. They are indirectly aided by their former enemy Dingodile and an adventuring alternate-dimension counterpart of Crash's old girlfriend Tawna.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 66 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 475 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~59/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 82k–183k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,075 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$39.99
Microsoft Store$59.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $19.99 at Blizzard (2022-12-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 28 of 29 observed days · $40.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
24324320222026Week of 2022-10-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

105262026-08-07 00:00 — 71 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 28 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 80 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 59 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 48 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 87 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 79 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 50 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 100 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 74 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 36 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 67 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 45 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 29 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 79 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 62 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 37 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 89 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 79 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 40 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 66 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 50 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 32 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 89 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 81 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 38 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 54 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 91 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 66 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$59.99$19.992021-02-092026-08-282021-02-09 — best price $39.992021-08-11 — best price $39.992021-11-30 — best price $39.992022-02-04 — best price $39.992022-04-26 — best price $39.992022-07-05 — best price $39.992022-09-06 — best price $39.992022-11-29 — best price $39.992023-01-05 — best price $39.992023-03-02 — best price $39.992023-04-18 — best price $19.992023-06-20 — best price $19.992023-07-13 — best price $39.992023-11-20 — best price $39.992024-01-04 — best price $39.992024-03-21 — best price $39.992024-05-02 — best price $39.992024-06-08 — best price $39.992024-07-11 — best price $39.992024-08-15 — best price $39.992024-11-27 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $19.992025-02-24 — best price $39.992025-03-20 — best price $39.992025-05-29 — best price $19.992025-08-01 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $39.992025-12-03 — best price $39.992026-01-06 — best price $39.992026-02-23 — best price $39.992026-05-05 — best price $19.992026-06-18 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $39.992026-08-28 — best price $59.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.7k2812026-05-30 — 315 pageviews2026-06-02 — 328 pageviews2026-06-05 — 547 pageviews2026-06-08 — 1,662 pageviews2026-06-11 — 601 pageviews2026-06-14 — 460 pageviews2026-06-17 — 413 pageviews2026-06-20 — 307 pageviews2026-06-23 — 297 pageviews2026-06-26 — 325 pageviews2026-06-29 — 364 pageviews2026-07-02 — 281 pageviews2026-07-05 — 298 pageviews2026-07-08 — 320 pageviews2026-07-11 — 416 pageviews2026-07-14 — 293 pageviews2026-07-17 — 339 pageviews2026-07-20 — 336 pageviews2026-07-23 — 317 pageviews2026-07-26 — 344 pageviews2026-07-29 — 293 pageviews2026-08-01 — 344 pageviews2026-08-04 — 309 pageviews2026-08-07 — 320 pageviews2026-08-10 — 852 pageviews2026-08-13 — 326 pageviews2026-08-16 — 405 pageviews2026-08-19 — 312 pageviews2026-08-22 — 313 pageviews2026-08-25 — 412 pageviews2026-08-27 — 364 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

51
achievements tracked
90.8%
earned "Taking the Side Road"
20.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Player tags

3DActionComedyCartoonyColorfulAdventureDifficultPlatformerMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

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

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