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Never Give Up cover art

Never Give Up

Massive Monster · Armor Games Studios · 2019-08-13

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 13, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 13, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 13, 2019 (Mac), Aug 13, 2019 (Linux)

Never Give Up is a hardcore platformer determined to turn you into bloody chunks. Run, jump, and slide your way through ever-changing levels that get harder each time you succeed. You’ll need to try, die, and try again if you want to conquer the game without pressing the Give Up button.

87%
positive of 195 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.49
steam price (US)
Never Give Up is a 2D platform game developed by Massive Monster and Tasselfoot and published by Armor Games on August 13, 2019. The game follows a stick figure man named Blue who awakes in a strange facility and tries to escape it. The main gameplay consists of several level "sets", each of which contain several increasingly difficult iterations on the same level. The game is a reboot of the Give Up series, also published by Armor Games, and includes full voice acting by Arin Hanson of Game Grumps.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 28,570 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.9k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 195 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.49-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at GOG (2025-12-11) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 18 of 37 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
222220192026Week of 2019-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$1.492026-09-102026-10-162026-09-10 — best price $14.992026-09-11 — best price $14.992026-09-12 — best price $14.992026-09-13 — best price $14.992026-09-14 — best price $14.992026-09-15 — best price $14.992026-09-16 — best price $14.992026-09-17 — best price $14.992026-09-18 — best price $14.992026-09-19 — best price $14.992026-09-20 — best price $14.992026-09-21 — best price $14.992026-09-22 — best price $14.992026-09-23 — best price $14.992026-09-24 — best price $1.492026-09-25 — best price $1.492026-09-26 — best price $1.492026-09-27 — best price $1.492026-09-28 — best price $1.492026-09-29 — best price $1.492026-09-30 — best price $1.492026-10-01 — best price $1.492026-10-02 — best price $1.492026-10-03 — best price $1.492026-10-04 — best price $1.492026-10-05 — best price $1.492026-10-06 — best price $1.492026-10-07 — best price $14.992026-10-08 — best price $14.992026-10-09 — best price $14.992026-10-10 — best price $14.992026-10-11 — best price $14.992026-10-12 — best price $1.492026-10-13 — best price $1.492026-10-14 — best price $1.492026-10-15 — best price $1.492026-10-16 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Completion

49
achievements tracked
85.7%
earned "WAY better than stamps"
13.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DGoreIndieActionComedyViolentAdventureDifficultFast-PacedPlatformer

Census log

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

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