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Sketchy's Contract

Dimensionless Games · 2026-07-15

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 09, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.

Sketchy's Contract is an $8.99 Action, Adventure, Indie title released in 2026, with a Very Positive review sentiment (85% of 1338 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

7
playing now
85%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 77 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 27k–60k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,338 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.59 at Steam (2024-06-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 4 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16016020242026Week of 2024-04-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2902026-09-15 02:00 — 13 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 29 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 5 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 16 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 4 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 7 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 5 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 7 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 9 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 11 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 9 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 24 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1769Apr 2024Aug 2026Apr 2024 — avg 132 · peak 729May 2024 — avg 176 · peak 596Jun 2024 — avg 127 · peak 406Jul 2024 — avg 105 · peak 380Aug 2024 — avg 48 · peak 175Sep 2024 — avg 69 · peak 244Oct 2024 — avg 60 · peak 424Nov 2024 — avg 75 · peak 254Dec 2024 — avg 55 · peak 214Jan 2025 — avg 67 · peak 199Feb 2025 — avg 44 · peak 166Mar 2025 — avg 22 · peak 94Apr 2025 — avg 56 · peak 314May 2025 — avg 30 · peak 109Jun 2025 — avg 19 · peak 72Jul 2025 — avg 30 · peak 192Aug 2025 — avg 22 · peak 90Sep 2025 — avg 18 · peak 79Oct 2025 — avg 31 · peak 158Nov 2025 — avg 23 · peak 116Dec 2025 — avg 23 · peak 113Jan 2026 — avg 20 · peak 88Feb 2026 — avg 14 · peak 47Mar 2026 — avg 9 · peak 38Apr 2026 — avg 29 · peak 123May 2026 — avg 13 · peak 50Jun 2026 — avg 9 · peak 34Jul 2026 — avg 23 · peak 83Aug 2026 — avg 14 · peak 55
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$8.99$3.592024-04-102026-07-222024-04-10 — best price $8.092024-04-23 — best price $8.992024-05-24 — best price $6.292024-05-31 — best price $8.992024-06-27 — best price $3.592024-07-11 — best price $8.992024-09-02 — best price $6.292024-09-09 — best price $8.992024-10-28 — best price $6.292024-11-04 — best price $8.992024-11-27 — best price $6.292024-12-04 — best price $8.992024-12-19 — best price $5.392025-01-02 — best price $8.992025-03-13 — best price $7.192025-03-20 — best price $8.992025-05-17 — best price $7.642025-05-24 — best price $8.992025-06-27 — best price $6.292025-07-10 — best price $8.992025-09-29 — best price $7.192025-10-06 — best price $8.992025-10-27 — best price $7.642025-11-03 — best price $8.992025-12-18 — best price $7.192026-01-05 — best price $8.992026-03-19 — best price $7.192026-03-26 — best price $8.992026-06-25 — best price $7.192026-07-09 — best price $8.992026-07-15 — best price $8.092026-07-22 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
1.6%
earned "Starting My Collection"
0.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)250%15

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

Player tags

PvECo-opFunnyAliensComedyHorrorSci-fiAdventureAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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