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HARDCODED

Ghost Hug Games · 2024-11-04

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jan 31, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 04, 2024 (Linux), Nov 04, 2024 (Mac)

HARDCODED - A non-linear delve through the lives and beds of the people of a cyberpunk city.

HARDCODED is a 2024 Adventure, Indie game priced at $16.99, with a Very Positive sentiment based on 92% of 342 reviews.

92%
positive of 348 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$16.99
steam price (US)
Hardcoded is an erotic dating simulator visual novel game developed and published by Ghosthug Games for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The game follows a droid named HC who runs away from her owners and joins the local trans community.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (51 reviews).
  • · Top 23% of 28,748 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.0k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 348 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $14.44 at Steam (2025-03-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $16.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620242026Week of 2024-11-04: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-11-04: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-11: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-11-11: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-18: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-25: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-12-02: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-09: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-12-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-16: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-30: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-13: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-20: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-27: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-03: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-17: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-31: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-14: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-21: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-26: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-30: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-14: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-11: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-17: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$16.99$14.442024-11-042026-03-262024-11-04 — best price $15.292024-11-11 — best price $16.992025-03-13 — best price $14.442025-03-20 — best price $16.992025-06-27 — best price $14.442025-07-10 — best price $16.992025-12-18 — best price $14.442026-01-05 — best price $16.992026-03-19 — best price $14.442026-03-26 — best price $16.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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