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Manic Mechanics

4J Studios · Curve Games · 2024-03-07

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Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 07, 2024 (Xbox One), Mar 07, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Jul 13, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 07, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In Manic Mechanics, up to four players pull on their overalls and head to the auto-obsessed Octane Isle, looking to make a name for themselves as travelling mechanics. Whether played solo or with friends, co-op or versus, Manic Mechanics has plenty of comedic chaos to go around!

74%
positive of 68 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)
Manic Mechanics is a 2023 party video game developed by 4J Studios and published by Curve Games. It was released on 13 July 2023 for Nintendo Switch, and on 7 March 2024 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (31 reviews).
  • · Top 55% of 14,038 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 68 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$23.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2025-06-12) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 9 of 19 observed days · $14.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320242026Week of 2024-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$9.992024-03-072026-09-122024-03-07 — best price $19.992024-05-15 — best price $12.492024-06-27 — best price $12.492024-10-24 — best price $12.492024-11-27 — best price $12.492024-12-06 — best price $12.492025-01-23 — best price $12.492025-03-13 — best price $12.492025-04-28 — best price $12.492025-06-12 — best price $9.992025-07-31 — best price $9.992025-09-15 — best price $9.992025-10-29 — best price $9.992025-12-12 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $9.992026-01-16 — best price $9.992026-03-05 — best price $9.992026-05-04 — best price $9.992026-06-18 — best price $9.992026-07-30 — best price $9.992026-09-12 — best price $23.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam Achievements

15 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian…

Player tags

3DPvPCuteCo-opFunnyActionArcadeCasualComedyCartoony

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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