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Monster Bash cover art

Monster Bash

Apogee Software · Apogee Entertainment · 2014-05-05

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 09, 1993 (DOS), May 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 05, 2014 (Mac), Oct 04, 2025 (Linux)

Johnny Dash's bash 'em and smash 'em adventure takes him into the evil Under World of Count Chuck. The story starts when Johnny's dog Tex is kidnapped by the Count, along with hundreds of other pet dogs and cats.

0
playing now
81%
positive of 75 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Monster Bash is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Apogee Software for DOS. The game features 16-color EGA graphics and IMF AdLib compatible music. It was developed by Frank Maddin and Gerald Lindsly.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 73% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 75 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.49-50%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.49-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2022-11-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 32 of 57 observed days · $2.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$0.492015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-06-13 — best price $1.492015-10-29 — best price $13.592015-11-25 — best price $9.992016-11-14 — best price $5.992018-04-10 — best price $5.992020-02-17 — best price $2.992020-12-16 — best price $4.492021-06-28 — best price $5.992021-11-15 — best price $5.992022-01-24 — best price $1.492022-04-08 — best price $5.392022-07-25 — best price $0.592022-10-27 — best price $0.592023-01-03 — best price $5.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-08-07 — best price $0.592023-11-02 — best price $5.992024-01-05 — best price $0.892024-03-14 — best price $0.842024-05-28 — best price $1.242024-08-14 — best price $4.992024-10-25 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $0.842025-03-11 — best price $0.842025-05-20 — best price $0.842025-07-22 — best price $0.842025-09-11 — best price $4.992025-11-05 — best price $4.992026-01-03 — best price $4.992026-03-04 — best price $2.492026-04-09 — best price $2.492026-05-30 — best price $4.992026-07-24 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $2.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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