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Hocus Pocus cover art

Hocus Pocus

Moonlite Software · Apogee Entertainment · 2014-05-05

SteamGOG

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 05, 1998 (DOS), Jul 24, 2014 (Linux), Feb 19, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 23, 2013 (Mac)

Terexin, leader of the Council of Wizards, is sending the young sorcerer, Hocus, on a special mission to prove his worthiness.

1
playing now
85%
positive of 205 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

3D Realms is an American video game publisher and developer originally based in Garland, Texas and currently based in Aalborg, Denmark. It was founded in 1987 as Apogee Software by Scott Miller to publish his game Kingdom of Kroz. Prior to Apogee's founding, Miller had released a few games he had developed himself, as well as a couple "packs" of games developed by himself and others, under a shareware distribution model whereby the games were distributed for free in return for donations. These games were inconsistently marketed under the name Apogee Software Productions, though after the company was founded they were sold under the Apogee Software name. Miller found that the standard shareware model was not viable for his games such as Beyond the Titanic (1986) and Supernova (1987), and beginning with Kroz the company pioneered the "Apogee model" of shareware distribution, wherein games were broken up into segments with the first part released for free to drive interest in the other monetized portions.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 58% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.1k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 205 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.99-50%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at Fanatical (2023-11-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 39 of 49 observed days · $2.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-12 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$0.792015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-07-31 — best price $4.992016-06-23 — best price $1.742017-07-05 — best price $4.992018-11-28 — best price $4.992020-01-23 — best price $2.492020-05-27 — best price $2.992020-07-16 — best price $4.992020-08-10 — best price $4.492020-09-05 — best price $4.992020-10-02 — best price $4.492020-10-27 — best price $4.992020-11-20 — best price $4.492020-12-16 — best price $2.392021-01-20 — best price $4.492021-02-12 — best price $3.662021-03-11 — best price $4.492021-04-11 — best price $3.662021-05-07 — best price $4.492021-05-31 — best price $4.992021-10-03 — best price $4.992022-02-21 — best price $5.992022-06-20 — best price $1.992022-10-26 — best price $5.992023-01-03 — best price $5.992023-03-24 — best price $3.662023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-11-16 — best price $4.492024-02-06 — best price $5.992024-04-22 — best price $3.662024-08-26 — best price $1.192024-11-24 — best price $4.492025-02-07 — best price $4.492025-04-10 — best price $1.192025-06-18 — best price $1.192025-09-29 — best price $0.842026-03-27 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $0.842026-08-30 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

391652026-05-29 — 208 pageviews2026-06-01 — 81 pageviews2026-06-04 — 181 pageviews2026-06-07 — 88 pageviews2026-06-10 — 65 pageviews2026-06-13 — 80 pageviews2026-06-16 — 72 pageviews2026-06-19 — 127 pageviews2026-06-22 — 126 pageviews2026-06-25 — 118 pageviews2026-06-28 — 128 pageviews2026-07-01 — 129 pageviews2026-07-04 — 80 pageviews2026-07-07 — 188 pageviews2026-07-10 — 135 pageviews2026-07-13 — 126 pageviews2026-07-16 — 113 pageviews2026-07-19 — 118 pageviews2026-07-22 — 89 pageviews2026-07-25 — 90 pageviews2026-07-28 — 121 pageviews2026-07-31 — 91 pageviews2026-08-03 — 114 pageviews2026-08-06 — 88 pageviews2026-08-09 — 92 pageviews2026-08-12 — 113 pageviews2026-08-15 — 108 pageviews2026-08-18 — 139 pageviews2026-08-21 — 113 pageviews2026-08-24 — 99 pageviews2026-08-26 — 95 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRetro1990'sActionClassicFantasyAdventurePlatformerPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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