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Math Rescue cover art

Math Rescue

Redwood Games · Apogee Entertainment · 2014-05-05

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 01, 1992 (DOS), May 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 05, 2014 (Mac)

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83%
positive of 81 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)
Math Rescue is a 1992 educational platform game created by Karen Crowther of Redwood Games and published by Apogee Software. Its early pre-release title was "Number Rescue". Released in October 1992 for the MS-DOS platform, it is a loose successor to the earlier game Word Rescue, whose game engine was used to power the new game with minor changes. Math Rescue was initially released as shareware but later achieved a retail release. It was followed by Math Rescue Plus. There were plans to have a sequel to the game called "Gruzzle Puzzles" but it was never started.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 64% of 14,225 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 81 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Fanatical (2023-11-20) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

Retro1990'sAdventureEducationPlatformer

Census log

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

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