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ElecHead cover art

ElecHead

NamaTakahashi · 2021-10-14

SteamGOGMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

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

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5
playing now
97%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 29k–65k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,443 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$8.49
GOG$9.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$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 12 of 25 observed days · $4.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1302026-08-11 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 14:00 — 12 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 13:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 05:00 — 8 players2026-08-15 21:00 — 13 players2026-08-16 13:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 9 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 11:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 10:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 18:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 10:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$4.492021-10-142026-08-302021-10-14 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $8.992022-02-03 — best price $8.992022-05-24 — best price $9.992022-07-14 — best price $8.992022-08-01 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $7.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-31 — best price $8.492023-06-29 — best price $7.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-10-09 — best price $6.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $6.992024-05-28 — best price $6.992024-06-19 — best price $6.992024-10-13 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $5.992025-06-05 — best price $9.992025-07-18 — best price $9.992025-11-28 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $4.492026-04-11 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $4.492026-08-17 — best price $4.492026-08-25 — best price $9.992026-08-29 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2232026-05-30 — 11 pageviews2026-06-02 — 10 pageviews2026-06-05 — 3 pageviews2026-06-08 — 4 pageviews2026-06-11 — 5 pageviews2026-06-14 — 8 pageviews2026-06-17 — 11 pageviews2026-06-20 — 5 pageviews2026-06-23 — 3 pageviews2026-06-26 — 7 pageviews2026-06-29 — 7 pageviews2026-07-02 — 11 pageviews2026-07-05 — 6 pageviews2026-07-08 — 8 pageviews2026-07-11 — 4 pageviews2026-07-14 — 5 pageviews2026-07-17 — 4 pageviews2026-07-20 — 7 pageviews2026-07-23 — 6 pageviews2026-07-26 — 4 pageviews2026-07-29 — 5 pageviews2026-08-01 — 9 pageviews2026-08-04 — 10 pageviews2026-08-07 — 22 pageviews2026-08-10 — 17 pageviews2026-08-13 — 10 pageviews2026-08-16 — 12 pageviews2026-08-19 — 12 pageviews2026-08-22 — 13 pageviews2026-08-25 — 12 pageviews2026-08-27 — 5 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…

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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