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Sledgehammer / Gear Grinder

Targem Games · ESDigital Games · 2014-03-12

Steam

ActionRacing

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Apr 10, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (Xbox 360)

Drive the most powerful truck and destroy every opponent that you’ll find on the road or go to the multiplayer mode and decide who is the king of the highway, among your friends.

79%
positive of 177 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

Jack Hammer is a truck driver with a problem. A guy named Jorge planted a bomb in his head and forces him to work for the Agency which requires him to kill people. Granted, the guys he kills aren't angels themselves but still Jack isn't very fond of working for Jorge so he tries to find a way to get back to him.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 16,922 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.4k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 177 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$6.58-18%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.71 at Steam (2015-11-25) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 30 of 48 observed days · $5.87 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620142026Week of 2014-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$0.712015-01-012026-09-182015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-10-12 — best price $3.912016-02-05 — best price $1.992016-09-05 — best price $1.592017-04-10 — best price $1.592017-10-26 — best price $0.792018-03-19 — best price $0.792018-10-30 — best price $0.792019-03-18 — best price $1.192019-10-28 — best price $0.792020-04-13 — best price $1.192020-11-25 — best price $0.792021-06-24 — best price $0.792021-11-24 — best price $0.792022-05-23 — best price $1.192022-11-22 — best price $0.792023-06-30 — best price $0.792023-11-16 — best price $7.992023-12-24 — best price $7.992024-02-08 — best price $1.112024-03-18 — best price $1.192024-05-09 — best price $6.602024-08-06 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $6.602025-04-18 — best price $7.992025-08-11 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $7.992026-03-14 — best price $6.602026-04-17 — best price $6.602026-06-08 — best price $7.992026-07-22 — best price $7.992026-09-10 — best price $1.712026-09-18 — best price $6.58
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, French

Player tags

ActionRacingShooter

Census log

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

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