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Howard Phillips Lovecar

The Secret Pie · 2018-10-01

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 08, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 08, 2017 (Linux), Jun 08, 2017 (Mac)

A top-down driving shooter. It's like Devil Daggers + GTA1 (Kill Frenzy!). Stop The Great Old Ones - or die trying!

76%
positive of 50 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 52% of 26,012 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 50 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2024-09-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020172026Week of 2017-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Input API SupportStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DGoreBloodIndieActionArcadeDrivingShooterViolentTop-Down

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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