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Hardcore and Death

ZERO5GAMES · 2025-12-05

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Run through huge multi-level locations, avoiding spikes, falling platforms, and flying blades, use double jumps, and choose your route to reach the Heart before the lights go out.

Hardcore and Death is an Action, Adventure, Casual and Indie game released in 2025, priced at $1.99, with Very Positive (82% of 76 reviews) sentiment.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

84%
positive of 64 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 47% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 27,784 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–2.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 64 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2026-02-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
444420252026Week of 2025-12-05: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-12-05: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-16: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-30: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-03: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$1.99$0.592025-12-052026-07-202025-12-05 — best price $1.692025-12-15 — best price $1.992026-02-20 — best price $0.592026-03-06 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $0.592026-03-26 — best price $1.992026-04-09 — best price $0.592026-04-23 — best price $1.992026-05-25 — best price $0.692026-06-01 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $0.692026-07-09 — best price $1.992026-07-13 — best price $0.692026-07-20 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Census log

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