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Slab cover art

Slab

Smash The Code · 2018-05-07

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 07, 2018 (Mac), May 07, 2018 (Linux), May 07, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Slab is an arcade game in which the main task is destroy slabs and bricks. The player controls a horizontally moving paddle to ricochet the ball against the slabs and destroy them. Slab has a very precision paddle! If you like classic childhood games, check it out!

78%
positive of 83 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 25,670 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.1k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 83 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620182026Week of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-10-21 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IndieRetroShortActionArcadeLinearSci-fiColorfulDifficultFast-Paced

Census log

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

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