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Highrise Heroes: Word Challenge cover art

Highrise Heroes: Word Challenge

Fallen Tree Games Ltd · 2016-01-08

Steam

AdventureIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 09, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 08, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 01, 2020 (iOS)

A towering word-game and mystery-story mash-up!

87%
positive of 131 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 25,902 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.3k–7.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 131 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2022-07-11) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720162026Week of 2016-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$0.742016-01-092026-05-182016-01-09 — best price $2.992016-02-12 — best price $4.992016-06-23 — best price $1.492016-11-14 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $1.242017-05-15 — best price $4.992017-10-28 — best price $1.242017-11-28 — best price $4.992018-02-15 — best price $1.492018-08-27 — best price $4.992018-12-20 — best price $0.992019-02-11 — best price $4.992019-09-19 — best price $4.992019-11-26 — best price $1.242020-01-02 — best price $4.992020-06-25 — best price $1.242020-09-14 — best price $4.992020-11-25 — best price $1.242021-01-05 — best price $4.992021-04-19 — best price $1.242021-09-06 — best price $4.992021-12-23 — best price $1.242022-04-04 — best price $4.992022-08-29 — best price $0.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $0.992023-07-24 — best price $4.992023-10-09 — best price $0.992023-12-11 — best price $4.992024-01-15 — best price $1.242024-03-04 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $1.242024-08-05 — best price $4.992024-10-28 — best price $1.242024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-02-23 — best price $4.992026-03-30 — best price $0.992026-05-18 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

36
achievements tracked
25.2%
earned "Intern's First Day"
12.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieLogicPuzzleStrategyAdventureWord GameStory Rich

Census log

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

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