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Malware

Odd Games · 2024-07-31

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jul 31, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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Malware is a 2024 Casual, Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game priced at $2.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (88% of 1214 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners.

0
playing now
88%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 99 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~12/week).
  • · Review velocity up 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (697 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 29,079 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 24k–55k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,216 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.09 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
61161120242026Week of 2024-08-01: 611 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$2.092024-08-012026-07-092024-08-01 — best price $2.392024-08-14 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $2.392024-12-04 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $2.392025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.392025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-06-27 — best price $2.392025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $2.392025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.092026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-02-12 — best price $2.392026-02-19 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.392026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-04-09 — best price $2.392026-04-16 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $2.392026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
93.4%
earned "Warm home"
19.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)76219%16

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DLogicMemesRetro1990'sCasualPuzzleClickerLife SimStrategy

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.