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GearBlocks

SmashHammer Games · 2023-11-09

Steam

IndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 09, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!

91%
positive of 776 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 113 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~14/week).
  • · Review velocity down 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 18,246 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–35k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 776 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2024-11-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
585820232026Week of 2023-11-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$11.992023-11-092026-07-092023-11-09 — best price $13.492023-11-16 — best price $14.992024-11-25 — best price $11.992024-12-02 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $11.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-06-26 — best price $11.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $11.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $11.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DActionDrivingPhysicsSandboxBuildingModdableOpen WorldSimulationDestruction

Census log

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

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