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Hack 'n' Slash cover art

Hack 'n' Slash

Double Fine Productions · 2014-09-09

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 09, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 09, 2014 (Linux), Sep 09, 2014 (Mac)

Hack ‘n’ Slash is a puzzle action game about hacking -- reprogram object properties, hijack global variables, hack creature behavior, and even rewrite the game’s code. The only way to win is not to play...by the rules!

0
playing now
53%
positive of 931 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
6h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$13.37
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Hack 'n' Slash is a video game developed by Double Fine Productions. Prototyped during Double Fine's open Amnesia Fortnight 2012, Hack 'n' Slash is a top-down action-adventure game similar to The Legend of Zelda, though with in-game weapons and objects that allow the player to hack the game's world to achieve victory. The game was released to Steam's Early Access on May 6, 2014, for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux computers. It left early access status and became a full release on September 9, 2014.

Health check

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  • · Top 31% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 23k–56k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 931 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Microsoft Store (2019-01-18) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $13.37 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-06 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-042015-01-01 — best price $8.022015-06-11 — best price $6.682015-12-01 — best price $13.372016-02-12 — best price $13.372016-11-29 — best price $13.372017-07-05 — best price $13.372018-01-04 — best price $13.372018-07-05 — best price $13.372018-09-29 — best price $14.012018-11-02 — best price $19.992019-01-03 — best price $19.992019-02-12 — best price $13.372019-11-01 — best price $13.372020-01-02 — best price $13.372020-04-06 — best price $13.372020-11-02 — best price $13.372021-01-05 — best price $13.372021-07-08 — best price $13.372022-01-05 — best price $13.372022-06-23 — best price $3.342022-12-22 — best price $4.012023-03-16 — best price $4.012023-06-08 — best price $4.012023-11-21 — best price $3.602024-03-14 — best price $3.342024-06-27 — best price $3.342024-11-27 — best price $2.672025-01-20 — best price $5.342025-04-24 — best price $4.412025-09-09 — best price $2.002025-11-21 — best price $2.672026-03-19 — best price $2.672026-06-04 — best price $2.672026-07-28 — best price $2.672026-08-04 — best price $13.37
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

19932026-05-28 — 11 pageviews2026-05-31 — 6 pageviews2026-06-03 — 3 pageviews2026-06-06 — 11 pageviews2026-06-09 — 9 pageviews2026-06-12 — 15 pageviews2026-06-15 — 88 pageviews2026-06-18 — 40 pageviews2026-06-21 — 25 pageviews2026-06-24 — 25 pageviews2026-06-27 — 15 pageviews2026-06-30 — 38 pageviews2026-07-03 — 18 pageviews2026-07-06 — 160 pageviews2026-07-09 — 27 pageviews2026-07-12 — 22 pageviews2026-07-15 — 29 pageviews2026-07-18 — 10 pageviews2026-07-21 — 11 pageviews2026-07-24 — 10 pageviews2026-07-27 — 15 pageviews2026-07-30 — 19 pageviews2026-08-02 — 11 pageviews2026-08-05 — 11 pageviews2026-08-08 — 6 pageviews2026-08-11 — 6 pageviews2026-08-14 — 26 pageviews2026-08-17 — 17 pageviews2026-08-20 — 16 pageviews2026-08-23 — 22 pageviews2026-08-25 — 15 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam WorkshopFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DRPGIndieActionCasualPuzzleFantasyHackingAdventureAction RPG

Census log

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

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