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Hardwar

Jordan Freeman Group · Funbox Media Ltd · 2023-02-15

Steam

ActionSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: 1998 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You’re now an Operative, a free agent and a speculator in the claustrophobic terminally ill city of (Misplaced) Optimism, the last crater cluster on barren mined-out Titan.

Hardwar is a $9.99 Action and Simulation game released in 2023, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 57 reviews).

1
playing now
93%
positive of 57 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
Nexus mods (9 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Titan. An icy Moon in our solar system and full of forgotten mines, dug into the craters. They were big once, but corporations have abandoned them with workers and settlers, who are fighting for survival. Welcome to the gloomy city of Misplaced Optimism... Clans have formed since then, and the political and military situation has evolved. These organisations plunder and slowly deplete the scarce resources that sustain them, permanently faced with the slightest opportunity to tilt the balance in their favour. But the clans of today are no longer the major corporations of the past. Their lack (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 27,751 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 57 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.50 at GamersGate (2024-11-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 7 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920232026Week of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.502015-01-012026-07-242015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-07-31 — best price $2.992023-02-22 — best price $9.992024-08-20 — best price $1.882024-08-25 — best price $1.882024-09-30 — best price $1.882024-11-11 — best price $1.882024-11-27 — best price $1.992024-12-05 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-01-07 — best price $1.882025-01-20 — best price $9.992025-02-24 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-04-01 — best price $1.882025-05-12 — best price $1.882025-05-20 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-07-29 — best price $9.992025-08-05 — best price $9.992025-09-15 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-12-19 — best price $1.882026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-12 — best price $9.992026-07-10 — best price $9.992026-07-24 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FMVFPSSpace1990'sActionSci-fiShooterCyberpunkOld SchoolOpen World

Census log

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

Recent updates

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