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Hack 'n' Slash cover art

Hack 'n' Slash

Double Fine Productions · 2014-09-09

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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!

Hack 'n' Slash is an Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2014, priced at $13.37, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and Mixed (53% of 931 reviews) sentiment.

0
playing now
53%
positive of 934 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
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)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$13.37
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 23k–56k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 934 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 11 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620172026Week of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-14 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.992015-01-012026-09-142015-01-01 — 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 $2.672026-09-13 — best price $1.332026-09-14 — best price $1.33
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

10432026-05-28 — 11 pageviews2026-06-01 — 11 pageviews2026-06-05 — 8 pageviews2026-06-09 — 9 pageviews2026-06-13 — 12 pageviews2026-06-17 — 96 pageviews2026-06-21 — 25 pageviews2026-06-25 — 22 pageviews2026-06-29 — 21 pageviews2026-07-03 — 18 pageviews2026-07-07 — 104 pageviews2026-07-11 — 19 pageviews2026-07-15 — 29 pageviews2026-07-19 — 15 pageviews2026-07-23 — 26 pageviews2026-07-27 — 15 pageviews2026-07-31 — 13 pageviews2026-08-04 — 12 pageviews2026-08-08 — 6 pageviews2026-08-12 — 14 pageviews2026-08-16 — 15 pageviews2026-08-20 — 16 pageviews2026-08-24 — 21 pageviews2026-08-28 — 17 pageviews2026-09-01 — 85 pageviews2026-09-05 — 38 pageviews2026-09-09 — 31 pageviews2026-09-13 — 23 pageviews2026-09-17 — 14 pageviews2026-09-21 — 56 pageviews2026-09-25 — 39 pageviews2026-09-29 — 21 pageviews2026-10-03 — 14 pageviews2026-10-07 — 14 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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Similarity via IGDB.

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