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HackyZack cover art

HackyZack

Spaceboy Games · 2017-03-28

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndieSports

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Feb 12, 2019 (PlayStation 4), Mar 28, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 23, 2018 (Nintendo Switch)

You are Zack. Juggle balls with unique properties through platforming puzzles to a goal at the end of each stage. Help Zack fill his treasured book of stickers to unlock optional challenge levels, where you race against the timer to destroy targets as fast as possible.

HackyZack is a 2017 Action Indie Sports game priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (67% of 258 reviews).

0
playing now
67%
positive of 258 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
3.40★
PlayStation Store rating (10 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Dormant
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 0 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · No new reviews since week of 2025-01-01.
  • · Top 27% of 27,682 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.5k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 258 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2017-12-21) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220172026Week of 2017-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
780Mar 2017Aug 2021Mar 2017 — avg 1 · peak 8May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2017 — avg 22 · peak 209Nov 2017 — avg 4 · peak 11Jan 2018 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2018 — avg 19 · peak 540May 2018 — avg 29 · peak 411Jul 2018 — avg 33 · peak 626Sep 2018 — avg 2 · peak 14Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 8Jan 2019 — avg 2 · peak 10Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3May 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Aug 2021

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$1.492017-03-242019-09-172017-03-24 — best price $8.992017-04-04 — best price $9.992017-05-18 — best price $9.992017-05-29 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-09-24 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-02-19 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-08-06 — best price $9.992018-10-01 — best price $9.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-11-21 — best price $1.992018-11-28 — best price $9.992019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-05-16 — best price $9.992019-07-01 — best price $1.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992019-09-05 — best price $9.992019-09-17 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
10.2%
earned "World 1 Squashed"
3.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsStatsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-03-28 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8258%27
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

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

Player tags

IndieActionPuzzleSportsDifficultPlatformerPuzzle-Platformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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