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Pineapple Smash Crew cover art

Pineapple Smash Crew

RichMakeGame · 2012-02-02

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 02, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Winner of the 2011 Eurogamer Indie Arcade award, Pineapple Smash Crew is a fast-paced, tactical blast-em-up with a unique modern-retro feel!

Pineapple Smash Crew is an Action and Indie game released in 2012, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (80% of 123 reviews).

1
playing now
80%
positive of 123 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Pineapple Smash Crew is a 2012 dungeon crawl video game by British developer Rich Edwards. The game Pineapple Smash Crew is a "neo-retro" style, single player, level based, shoot-em-up game. It focuses on smashing and grabbing items, power-ups and strategy. The single player game is currently available for Microsoft Windows.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (26 reviews).
  • · Top 36% of 27,701 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.9k–9.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 123 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2014-06-19) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
252520122026Week of 2012-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2012-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2012-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2012-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2012-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
20Jul 2012Aug 2019Jul 2012 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2012 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2013 — avg 1 · peak 5Apr 2013 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2013 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2013 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2014 — avg 0 · peak 4Apr 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2014 — avg 1 · peak 7Oct 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2015 — avg 0 · peak 4Apr 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Oct 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Aug 2019

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$1.992015-01-012017-07-052015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-01-02 — best price $9.992015-06-11 — best price $1.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992015-11-25 — best price $2.492015-12-01 — best price $9.992015-12-22 — best price $2.492016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-02-05 — best price $3.992016-02-12 — best price $9.992016-06-23 — best price $1.992016-07-04 — best price $9.992017-06-22 — best price $1.992017-07-05 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

302026-06-01 — 0 pageviews2026-06-04 — 2 pageviews2026-06-08 — 0 pageviews2026-06-11 — 0 pageviews2026-06-14 — 0 pageviews2026-06-17 — 0 pageviews2026-06-21 — 0 pageviews2026-06-28 — 2 pageviews2026-07-01 — 1 pageviews2026-07-05 — 0 pageviews2026-07-08 — 0 pageviews2026-07-11 — 0 pageviews2026-07-17 — 1 pageviews2026-07-20 — 2 pageviews2026-07-23 — 0 pageviews2026-07-26 — 1 pageviews2026-07-29 — 0 pageviews2026-08-01 — 1 pageviews2026-08-04 — 1 pageviews2026-08-07 — 1 pageviews2026-08-10 — 1 pageviews2026-08-13 — 0 pageviews2026-08-17 — 0 pageviews2026-08-21 — 1 pageviews2026-08-24 — 0 pageviews2026-08-29 — 0 pageviews2026-09-02 — 0 pageviews2026-09-05 — 3 pageviews2026-09-08 — 1 pageviews2026-09-11 — 1 pageviews2026-09-14 — 1 pageviews2026-09-18 — 0 pageviews2026-09-22 — 0 pageviews2026-09-26 — 1 pageviews2026-09-29 — 2 pageviews2026-10-02 — 0 pageviews2026-10-06 — 2 pageviews2026-10-09 — 0 pageviews2026-10-10 — 0 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieActionTop-DownRogue-likeTwin Stick Shooter

Census log

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

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