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Sam & Max Hit the Road cover art

Sam & Max Hit the Road

Lucasfilm · 2018-11-16

SteamGOG

Adventure

Franchise: Sam & Max · Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 1993 (DOS), Nov 07, 2004 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 28, 2014 (Mac), Oct 28, 2014 (Linux)

Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case.

4
playing now
95%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
83/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (156 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

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

Sam & Max Hit the Road is a 1993 graphic adventure video game released by LucasArts during the company's adventure games era. The game was originally released for MS-DOS in 1993 and for Mac OS in 1995. A 2002 re-release included compatibility with Windows. The game is based on the comic characters of Sam and Max, the "Freelance Police", an anthropomorphic dog and "hyperkinetic rabbity thing". The characters, created by Steve Purcell, originally debuted in a 1987 comic book series. Based on the 1989 Sam & Max comic On the Road, the duo take the case of a missing bigfoot from a nearby carnival, traveling to many American culture tourist sites to solve the mystery.

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  • · Top 29% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 27k–64k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,072 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$5.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.11 at GameBillet (2022-10-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 24 of 46 observed days · $4.88 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1032026-08-11 20:00 — 10 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 7 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 5 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 4 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 7 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$1.102015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $5.992016-04-25 — best price $2.992017-06-06 — best price $1.492018-11-28 — best price $5.992019-12-03 — best price $5.992020-05-12 — best price $5.392020-09-07 — best price $5.392020-10-07 — best price $5.392020-11-05 — best price $5.392020-12-01 — best price $4.782021-01-05 — best price $5.992021-02-01 — best price $5.992021-06-24 — best price $2.092021-12-02 — best price $5.072022-02-05 — best price $5.992022-06-01 — best price $5.392022-08-02 — best price $4.222022-09-23 — best price $4.672022-12-12 — best price $2.092023-02-02 — best price $5.282023-05-07 — best price $1.352023-07-18 — best price $1.272023-10-19 — best price $1.242023-12-11 — best price $4.952024-02-12 — best price $4.312024-04-01 — best price $4.312024-06-01 — best price $5.692024-08-07 — best price $1.232024-10-01 — best price $1.102025-01-02 — best price $4.312025-03-04 — best price $5.992025-06-20 — best price $4.782025-10-27 — best price $5.992025-12-09 — best price $1.102026-06-17 — best price $2.992026-08-30 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, Italian

Player tags

BloodFunnyRetro1990'sComedyPuzzleAmericaClassicAdventureStory Rich

Census log

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

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