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Dale Hardshovel HD cover art

Dale Hardshovel HD

phime studio LLC · 2015-09-22

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 22, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 22, 2015 (Mac), Sep 22, 2015 (Linux)

Do you love puzzles with dropping, pushing and connecting artifacts ? Then welcome to our matching artifacts game with brains ( brain not included, you’ll have to use yours )

Dale Hardshovel HD is a 2015 Casual and Indie game priced at $3.99, with an estimated owner base of 100,000 to 200,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (55% of 40 reviews).

0
playing now
56%
positive of 41 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 250% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 51% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2017-10-26) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220152026Week of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.492015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-10-29 — best price $5.392015-12-18 — best price $1.992016-02-12 — best price $1.992016-09-26 — best price $2.492016-11-21 — best price $2.492016-12-22 — best price $0.892017-01-23 — best price $4.992017-02-20 — best price $4.992017-07-17 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $0.492018-02-15 — best price $0.792018-03-26 — best price $0.992018-11-01 — best price $0.992019-01-03 — best price $0.992019-10-28 — best price $0.792019-12-03 — best price $0.992020-01-23 — best price $0.892020-05-12 — best price $0.722020-10-29 — best price $0.692020-12-22 — best price $0.692021-02-11 — best price $0.892021-07-10 — best price $2.492021-11-01 — best price $0.992022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-07-07 — best price $0.992023-01-05 — best price $0.992023-07-03 — best price $0.992023-11-21 — best price $3.592024-03-14 — best price $2.792024-11-28 — best price $2.792025-01-01 — best price $1.992025-04-21 — best price $2.592025-09-29 — best price $2.792026-03-19 — best price $2.792026-07-09 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

9
achievements tracked
4%
earned "Child of time"
3.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

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Player tags

3DIndie1990'sArcadeCasualPuzzleMatch 3SokobanCartoonyColorful

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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