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Hold your houses

WhackAKey Games · Conglomerate 5 · 2017-01-31

Steam

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jan 31, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Have you ever been in a robbery and didn't have weapons to defend yourself and your house? Well now you can, with hold your houses you have a variety of weapons to use to help you defend yourself, your house and take on those unwanted robbers.

Hold your houses is a 2017 Action, Strategy game priced at $4.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (46% of 177 reviews).

2
playing now
46%
positive of 178 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.5k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 178 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.28 at Steam (2022-12-12) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 14 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520172026Week of 2017-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

20102026-09-15 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 8 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 26 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 25 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 12 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 6 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 201 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1240Feb 2017Aug 2026Feb 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Mar 2018 — avg 45 · peak 751May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 29Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 9Oct 2021 — avg 15 · peak 175Dec 2021 — avg 1 · peak 27Mar 2022 — avg 34 · peak 242May 2022 — avg 7 · peak 138Jul 2022 — avg 19 · peak 317Sep 2022 — avg 13 · peak 377Nov 2022 — avg 30 · peak 1,041Jan 2023 — avg 65 · peak 811Mar 2023 — avg 118 · peak 2,979May 2023 — avg 43 · peak 1,530Jul 2023 — avg 101 · peak 1,111Sep 2023 — avg 2 · peak 64Nov 2023 — avg 6 · peak 127Jan 2024 — avg 8 · peak 222Sep 2024 — avg 23 · peak 641Dec 2024 — avg 4 · peak 41Mar 2025 — avg 1 · peak 29May 2025 — avg 13 · peak 493Jul 2025 — avg 11 · peak 311Sep 2025 — avg 2 · peak 51Dec 2025 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2026 — avg 14 · peak 227Jun 2026 — avg 11 · peak 74Aug 2026 — avg 12 · peak 301
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.282017-02-012026-07-272017-02-01 — best price $3.492017-06-05 — best price $0.492017-07-27 — best price $1.992017-11-22 — best price $0.622018-02-15 — best price $0.692018-06-22 — best price $0.692018-10-30 — best price $0.892018-12-21 — best price $0.592019-03-25 — best price $0.492019-10-28 — best price $0.692019-12-03 — best price $0.992020-08-10 — best price $0.992020-12-01 — best price $0.992021-05-25 — best price $0.992021-09-06 — best price $0.992021-12-01 — best price $0.992022-03-07 — best price $0.992022-06-20 — best price $0.992022-08-29 — best price $0.992022-11-29 — best price $0.992023-01-30 — best price $0.992023-05-15 — best price $0.992023-08-07 — best price $0.992023-11-28 — best price $0.992024-02-26 — best price $0.992024-05-27 — best price $0.992024-09-09 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $0.992026-01-05 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-07-27 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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Player tags

3DFPSWarActionCombatShooterMilitaryStrategySurvivalAtmospheric

Census log

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

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