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ElecHead cover art

ElecHead

NamaTakahashi · 2021-10-14

SteamGOGMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 14, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 23, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 24, 2023 (Xbox One)

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ElecHead is an Action, Adventure and Indie game released in 2021, priced at $9.99, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 1456 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000.

1
playing now
96%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1,720
twitch viewers (latest)
1720.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
80/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

ElecHead is a 2021 puzzle-platform game developed and published by Japanese indie developer Nama Takahashi. The player controls Elec, a small robot character whose head electrically charges any surface it touches, to progress through puzzles. It was released on 14 October 2021 for PC, followed by a release on the Nintendo Switch on 23 June 2022 and the Xbox One on 23 March 2023.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 226 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~28/week).
  • · Review velocity up 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 27,942 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 29k–66k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,456 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$8.49
GOG$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.49 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 25 of 69 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
17717720212026Week of 2021-10-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1202026-09-15 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 6 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 8 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$4.492021-10-142026-10-152021-10-14 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-05-19 — best price $8.992022-07-14 — best price $8.992022-08-22 — best price $8.992022-12-22 — best price $7.992023-03-31 — best price $8.492023-06-30 — best price $8.992023-08-10 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-06-05 — best price $9.992024-10-13 — best price $5.992024-12-20 — best price $5.992025-05-29 — best price $5.992025-07-18 — best price $9.992025-12-05 — best price $9.992026-02-20 — best price $9.992026-04-11 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-24 — best price $4.492026-08-29 — best price $9.992026-09-02 — best price $9.992026-09-06 — best price $9.992026-09-10 — best price $8.492026-09-14 — best price $9.992026-09-18 — best price $9.992026-09-22 — best price $9.992026-09-26 — best price $9.992026-09-30 — best price $9.992026-10-04 — best price $9.992026-10-08 — best price $4.492026-10-12 — best price $4.492026-10-15 — best price $8.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1712026-05-30 — 11 pageviews2026-06-03 — 8 pageviews2026-06-07 — 5 pageviews2026-06-11 — 5 pageviews2026-06-15 — 14 pageviews2026-06-19 — 13 pageviews2026-06-23 — 3 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 7 pageviews2026-07-05 — 6 pageviews2026-07-09 — 16 pageviews2026-07-13 — 11 pageviews2026-07-17 — 4 pageviews2026-07-21 — 4 pageviews2026-07-25 — 8 pageviews2026-07-29 — 5 pageviews2026-08-02 — 7 pageviews2026-08-06 — 13 pageviews2026-08-10 — 17 pageviews2026-08-14 — 6 pageviews2026-08-18 — 8 pageviews2026-08-22 — 13 pageviews2026-08-26 — 14 pageviews2026-08-30 — 15 pageviews2026-09-03 — 4 pageviews2026-09-07 — 5 pageviews2026-09-11 — 1 pageviews2026-09-15 — 7 pageviews2026-09-19 — 4 pageviews2026-09-23 — 3 pageviews2026-09-27 — 5 pageviews2026-10-01 — 12 pageviews2026-10-05 — 5 pageviews2026-10-08 — 15 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
94.8%
earned " "
63.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

29 supported languages: English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Ukrainian, Dutch, Greek, Swedish, Spanish - Latin America…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-12-07 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,26842%13
Switch (Nintendo)1390%0
Xbox One (Xbox)11257%13

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

Player tags

2DCuteIndieRetroActionLinearPuzzleRobotsAdventureMinimalist

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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