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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!

3
playing now
40%
positive of 139 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 51% of 9,700 Casual games in the census by review count.
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 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

24002026-08-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 240 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 172 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 63 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 25 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 3 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).

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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