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Defunct

Freshly Squeezed · SOEDESCO · 2016-01-29

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AdventureIndieRacing

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 13, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 29, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 19, 2017 (Xbox One), Dec 19, 2017 (PlayStation 4)

Defunct is an indie adventure game with a focus on flow, speed and an engaging world. You are a broken robot that accidentally falls out of a giant cargo ship onto a post-human Earth, now inhabited by robots. You have to get back to your ship before it’s too late!

1
playing now
80%
positive of 734 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
2h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Defunct is an indie adventure video game developed by the Swedish indie video game development studio Freshly Squeezed from Visby. The game received several nominations at the 2014 Swedish Game Awards, including Game of the Year, which it went on to win. It was also nominated for Best Student Project at the 2014 Unity Awards.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 35% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–44k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 734 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$6.99
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.60 at GamersGate (2025-04-23) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 107 of 123 observed days · $9.39 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.602016-01-292026-08-282016-01-29 — best price $11.242016-07-15 — best price $9.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $0.992018-05-14 — best price $4.002018-10-02 — best price $14.992019-02-04 — best price $0.992019-11-01 — best price $9.992020-04-16 — best price $0.992020-11-10 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $0.992022-11-22 — best price $0.992023-01-05 — best price $0.742023-03-16 — best price $0.992023-07-01 — best price $7.892023-08-15 — best price $7.892023-10-10 — best price $0.992023-12-01 — best price $0.752024-01-11 — best price $0.752024-03-04 — best price $0.792024-04-23 — best price $1.002024-06-27 — best price $1.392024-08-15 — best price $0.992024-11-09 — best price $7.862025-01-28 — best price $9.992025-04-30 — best price $0.702025-07-17 — best price $0.992025-09-12 — best price $0.702025-11-06 — best price $9.992025-12-22 — best price $6.292026-02-12 — best price $0.602026-03-10 — best price $0.702026-04-16 — best price $0.992026-05-29 — best price $7.442026-07-15 — best price $6.992026-08-28 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5902026-05-30 — 59 pageviews2026-06-02 — 5 pageviews2026-06-05 — 9 pageviews2026-06-08 — 5 pageviews2026-06-11 — 4 pageviews2026-06-14 — 6 pageviews2026-06-17 — 4 pageviews2026-06-20 — 3 pageviews2026-06-23 — 4 pageviews2026-06-26 — 7 pageviews2026-06-29 — 13 pageviews2026-07-02 — 5 pageviews2026-07-05 — 6 pageviews2026-07-08 — 8 pageviews2026-07-11 — 6 pageviews2026-07-14 — 1 pageviews2026-07-17 — 6 pageviews2026-07-20 — 7 pageviews2026-07-23 — 5 pageviews2026-07-26 — 8 pageviews2026-07-29 — 5 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-04 — 2 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 7 pageviews2026-08-13 — 2 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-19 — 2 pageviews2026-08-22 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 1 pageviews2026-08-27 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

25 supported languages: English, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, French, Dutch, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,1813%28
PS4 (PlayStation)2,1594%28
Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)9223%27
Switch (Nintendo)720%0

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

Player tags

IndieShortArcadeCasualRacingRobotsColorfulAdventureControllerFast-Paced

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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