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MicroWorks cover art

MicroWorks

Agiriko · 2022-09-02

Steam

ActionCasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Sep 02, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

MicroWorks is a competitively lighthearted party game where you and up to 16 other players compete through a series of microgames and boss stages to reach the top of the scoreboard and unleash chaos!

3
playing now
80%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Healthy
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 248 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~31/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2022-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
23023020222026Week of 2022-09-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5202026-09-15 02:00 — 25 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 5 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 18 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 25 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 10 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 12 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 10 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 20 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 52 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 12 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 8 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 14 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 12 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 24 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 24 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 7 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 15 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 5 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 6 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 18 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
941Sep 2022Aug 2026Sep 2022 — avg 4 · peak 23Dec 2022 — avg 31 · peak 242Mar 2023 — avg 5 · peak 36Jun 2023 — avg 36 · peak 148Aug 2023 — avg 69 · peak 254Oct 2023 — avg 34 · peak 135Dec 2023 — avg 36 · peak 127Feb 2024 — avg 40 · peak 117Apr 2024 — avg 94 · peak 501Jun 2024 — avg 49 · peak 211Aug 2024 — avg 52 · peak 171Oct 2024 — avg 49 · peak 170Dec 2024 — avg 33 · peak 96Feb 2025 — avg 48 · peak 184Apr 2025 — avg 45 · peak 195Jun 2025 — avg 40 · peak 121Aug 2025 — avg 30 · peak 90Oct 2025 — avg 23 · peak 95Dec 2025 — avg 25 · peak 96Feb 2026 — avg 26 · peak 85Apr 2026 — avg 27 · peak 91Jun 2026 — avg 21 · peak 79Aug 2026 — avg 17 · peak 70
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$0.002022-09-022023-05-252022-09-02 — best price $11.992022-09-09 — best price $14.992022-10-21 — best price $8.992022-11-01 — best price $14.992022-11-22 — best price $8.992022-11-29 — best price $14.992022-12-22 — best price $2.992023-03-10 — best price $5.992023-03-13 — best price $14.992023-03-16 — best price $8.992023-03-23 — best price $14.992023-05-11 — best price $4.492023-05-25 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
65.8%
earned "Beats Nothing"
9.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam WorkshopAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortColor Alternatives1 DLC

17 supported languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Hebrew, Lithuanian…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-05-25 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,5780%100

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

Player tags

3DCuteFunnyIndieActionArcadeCasualSandboxCartoonyColorful

Census log

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

Recent updates

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