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Kill the Brickman cover art

Kill the Brickman

Doonutsaur · poncle presents · 2025-08-21

Steam

ActionCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 21, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 21, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)

A brick breaking, turn-based rogue-like bullet-builder - Blast bricks to break the bank.

78%
positive of 182 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)
Kill the Brickman is a 2025 video game developed by Doonutsaur and published by Poncle for Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series. It is a brick breaker themed puzzle game in which players use a firearm to shoot bricks across a series of levels. The game was the first to be developed the studio, and the first title published by Poncle, also an independent developer. Upon release, Kill the Brickman received generally favorable reviews, with praise directed to the game's offbeat tone and innovations on the brick breaker genre, and criticism to its pacing and progression.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 47% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (104 reviews).
  • · Top 30% of 29,056 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 182 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-20%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
737320252026Week of 2025-08-21: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-08-21: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-08-28: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-08-28: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-04: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-02: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$3.992025-08-212026-10-112025-08-21 — best price $4.492025-08-27 — best price $4.992025-08-28 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $4.492025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $4.242026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $4.242026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-04-13 — best price $4.242026-04-20 — best price $4.992026-05-25 — best price $4.242026-06-01 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-07-13 — best price $3.992026-07-20 — best price $4.992026-08-24 — best price $4.242026-08-31 — best price $4.992026-10-01 — best price $3.992026-10-08 — best price $4.992026-10-11 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

34
achievements tracked
78.5%
earned "Gatling"
14.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support

8 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Traditional Chinese

Census log

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

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