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Headlander

Double Fine Productions · Adult Swim Games · 2016-07-25

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Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 25, 2016 (Mac), Jul 25, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 26, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Nov 18, 2016 (Xbox One)

Launch into the ultimate head trip as you blast through psychotic robots in a retro 70's sci-fi action adventure from Double Fine Productions. It is a world of automation, a utopia gone wrong in which all of humanity have transferred their minds into robotic imposter bodies and are ruled by a computer.

0
playing now
90%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
critic score (21 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (24 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Headlander is a 2016 Metroidvania-style video game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Adult Swim Games.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 34% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 26k–63k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,058 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2020-11-25) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $18.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.992016-07-192026-08-302016-07-19 — best price $15.992016-11-21 — best price $11.992016-11-28 — best price $19.992017-02-13 — best price $7.992017-05-22 — best price $5.992017-06-23 — best price $3.992017-09-07 — best price $5.992017-10-26 — best price $7.992017-11-28 — best price $19.992018-01-25 — best price $19.992018-04-03 — best price $19.992018-05-28 — best price $19.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-09-13 — best price $19.992018-11-21 — best price $7.992019-01-03 — best price $19.992019-01-22 — best price $19.992019-05-30 — best price $7.992019-10-02 — best price $5.992019-11-27 — best price $3.992019-12-19 — best price $3.992020-01-24 — best price $5.992020-05-27 — best price $5.992020-11-13 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $1.992021-05-17 — best price $4.992021-06-28 — best price $19.992021-10-27 — best price $11.992021-11-17 — best price $9.992021-11-29 — best price $19.992022-01-05 — best price $19.992022-04-19 — best price $19.992022-07-04 — best price $19.992022-12-06 — best price $19.992023-04-25 — best price $19.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-10-10 — best price $19.992023-12-13 — best price $19.992024-01-23 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
60.5%
earned "The Dawn of Man's Head"
18.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions availableSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,98410%31
Xbox One (Xbox)3,90114%31
PS4 (PlayStation)2,43343%31

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

Player tags

FunnyRetroSpaceActionComedySci-fiPlatformerBullet HellMetroidvaniaSingleplayer

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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