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Inside The Gear cover art

Inside The Gear

Mykhail Konokh · 2014-11-21

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 21, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A physics puzzle game like no other! You are inside the big old machine. There are rusty gears and shafts all around you, along with interactive objects such as planks and cubes. Use each object and place the wheel on the platform – easy!

Inside The Gear is a 2014 Casual and Indie game priced at $1.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (40% of 139 reviews).

0
playing now
40%
positive of 139 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 200% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 29,615 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.5k–8.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 139 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-10-01) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220142026Week of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.622015-01-012026-05-182015-01-01 — best price $3.342015-06-23 — best price $1.242015-10-26 — best price $4.992016-01-07 — best price $4.992016-03-24 — best price $1.002016-07-05 — best price $4.992016-09-13 — best price $4.992016-11-29 — best price $4.992017-01-10 — best price $4.992017-05-15 — best price $1.702017-08-22 — best price $4.992017-11-30 — best price $0.622018-02-12 — best price $0.752018-06-18 — best price $0.742018-10-08 — best price $1.992019-02-11 — best price $1.992019-09-16 — best price $1.992020-01-13 — best price $1.992020-07-09 — best price $1.992020-12-01 — best price $1.992021-07-08 — best price $1.992021-12-01 — best price $1.992022-04-11 — best price $1.992022-08-29 — best price $1.992023-01-05 — best price $1.992023-06-12 — best price $1.992023-11-28 — best price $1.992024-03-21 — best price $1.992024-09-02 — best price $1.992025-01-27 — best price $1.992025-07-10 — best price $1.992026-01-12 — best price $1.992026-05-18 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
5.6%
earned "In-Depth Analysis of the 1st Machine #9"
4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2.5DIndieCasualPuzzlePhysicsDifficultAtmosphericSingleplayerFamily Friendly

Census log

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

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