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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.

Nodebuster is a 2024 Casual, Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game priced at $2.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (97% of 14,058 reviews).

19
playing now
97%
positive of 14k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4,427
twitch viewers (latest)
4427.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
75/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

19 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 19 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 1% of 29,079 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 281k–633k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 14,058 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 3 of 7 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

4872026-09-15 13:00 — 21 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 27 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 23 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 25 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 22 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 11 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 13 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 14 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 20 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 16 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 19 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 18 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 11 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 31 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 40 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 22 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 26 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 39 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 28 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 29 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 31 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 17 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 19 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
55925Aug 2024Aug 2026Aug 2024 — avg 71 · peak 267Sep 2024 — avg 240 · peak 755Oct 2024 — avg 559 · peak 1,808Nov 2024 — avg 192 · peak 410Dec 2024 — avg 168 · peak 330Jan 2025 — avg 121 · peak 280Feb 2025 — avg 104 · peak 234Mar 2025 — avg 108 · peak 281Apr 2025 — avg 116 · peak 914May 2025 — avg 57 · peak 113Jun 2025 — avg 65 · peak 218Jul 2025 — avg 81 · peak 207Aug 2025 — avg 42 · peak 81Sep 2025 — avg 35 · peak 79Oct 2025 — avg 56 · peak 114Nov 2025 — avg 34 · peak 65Dec 2025 — avg 46 · peak 117Jan 2026 — avg 45 · peak 106Feb 2026 — avg 33 · peak 64Mar 2026 — avg 44 · peak 143Apr 2026 — avg 26 · peak 66May 2026 — avg 25 · peak 50Jun 2026 — avg 37 · peak 101Jul 2026 — avg 36 · peak 89Aug 2026 — avg 28 · peak 106
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DIdlerRetroArcadeCasualClickerHackingAbstractColorfulRelaxing

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.