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Nodebuster cover art

Nodebuster

Goblobin · 2024-08-13

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 13, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

23
playing now
97%
positive of 14k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4,427
twitch viewers (latest)
75/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

23 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 23 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,085 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~136/week).
  • · Review velocity down 55% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (3,857 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 9,562 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 281k–631k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 14,032 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.94 at Steam (2025-06-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.8k3.8k20242026Week of 2024-08-01: 463 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,472 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3,790 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,623 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,257 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 716 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 424 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 547 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 635 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 271 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 289 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 412 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 295 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

98102026-08-11 17:00 — 30 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 19 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 31 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 23 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 27 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 23 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 18 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 59 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 98 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 29 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 31 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 45 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 17 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 42 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 31 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 17 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 33 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 31 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 17 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 24 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 21 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 17 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 34 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 24 players2026-08-28 03:00 — 19 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 29 players2026-08-29 10:00 — 24 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 23 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$1.942024-08-132026-07-092024-08-13 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $2.392025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.242025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-04-19 — best price $2.092025-04-26 — best price $2.992025-06-27 — best price $1.942025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $1.942025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-10-13 — best price $1.942025-10-27 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $1.942026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $1.942026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $1.942026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
99.4%
earned "Awakened"
83.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8,25382%13

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

Player tags

2DIdlerRetroArcadeCasualClickerHackingAbstractColorfulRelaxing

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.