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TBH: Task Bar Hero cover art

TBH: Task Bar Hero

Nugem Studio · 2026-05-27

Steam

CasualIndieRPGFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 27, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The ultimate tiny idle RPG! Adorable pixel heroes are waiting to join your adventure — from your taskbar. Fight off the boredom of work and daily life with diverse classes, skills, items, and builds!

TBH: Task Bar Hero is a 2026 Casual, Indie, RPG, and Free To Play game priced at free-to-play, with a Mixed review sentiment (53% of 44,021 reviews).

54,575
playing now
54%
positive of 47k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
42
twitch viewers (latest)
10.5
viewers/channel (concentration)
80/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

54,575 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

TBH: Task Bar Hero trailer thumbnail

TBH: Task Bar Hero Beginners Guide (9 Tips I Wish I Knew When Started)

≈120,415 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Thriving
  • · 54,575 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 3,385 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~423/week).
  • · Review velocity down 81% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (12,226 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 29,219 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-16

Tier history: cooling→thriving (Sep 16), thriving→cooling (Sep 16)

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 1 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7.9k7.9k20262026Week of 2026-05-27: 4,000 positiveWeek of 2026-05-27: 3,720 negativeWeek of 2026-06-03: 4,296 positiveWeek of 2026-06-03: 7,930 negativeWeek of 2026-06-10: 3,923 positiveWeek of 2026-06-10: 3,337 negativeWeek of 2026-06-17: 3,494 positiveWeek of 2026-06-17: 1,661 negativeWeek of 2026-06-24: 2,464 positiveWeek of 2026-06-24: 1,129 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,011 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1,468 negativeWeek of 2026-07-08: 1,261 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 605 negativeWeek of 2026-07-15: 857 positiveWeek of 2026-07-15: 418 negativeWeek of 2026-07-22: 741 positiveWeek of 2026-07-22: 580 negativeWeek of 2026-07-29: 490 positiveWeek of 2026-07-29: 258 negativeWeek of 2026-08-05: 399 positiveWeek of 2026-08-05: 263 negativeWeek of 2026-08-12: 301 positiveWeek of 2026-08-12: 236 negativeWeek of 2026-08-19: 294 positiveWeek of 2026-08-19: 143 negativeWeek of 2026-08-26: 263 positiveWeek of 2026-08-26: 148 negativeWeek of 2026-09-02: 277 positiveWeek of 2026-09-02: 190 negativeWeek of 2026-09-09: 256 positiveWeek of 2026-09-09: 237 negativeWeek of 2026-09-16: 241 positiveWeek of 2026-09-16: 174 negativeWeek of 2026-09-23: 206 positiveWeek of 2026-09-23: 150 negativeWeek of 2026-09-30: 181 positiveWeek of 2026-09-30: 88 negativeWeek of 2026-10-07: 113 positiveWeek of 2026-10-07: 81 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

97k37k2026-09-15 05:00 — 82,216 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 97,037 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 73,467 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 37,218 players2026-09-19 19:00 — 71,995 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 71,469 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 71,191 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 73,238 players2026-09-23 19:00 — 68,808 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 68,784 players2026-09-25 19:00 — 70,521 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 69,701 players2026-09-27 19:00 — 67,745 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 66,667 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 65,742 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 63,967 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 62,937 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 63,713 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 63,723 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 60,890 players2026-10-05 19:00 — 59,598 players2026-10-06 19:00 — 58,692 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 56,099 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 53,499 players2026-10-09 19:00 — 56,730 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 56,072 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 55,165 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 55,106 players2026-10-13 19:00 — 54,691 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 52,218 players2026-10-15 05:00 — 54,575 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#41#752026-09-152026-10-152026-09-15 — #432026-09-16 — #432026-09-17 — #422026-09-18 — #412026-09-19 — #412026-09-20 — #542026-09-21 — #582026-09-22 — #442026-09-23 — #442026-09-24 — #442026-09-25 — #442026-09-26 — #472026-09-27 — #552026-09-28 — #572026-09-29 — #512026-09-30 — #512026-10-01 — #512026-10-02 — #562026-10-03 — #582026-10-04 — #672026-10-05 — #722026-10-06 — #632026-10-07 — #632026-10-08 — #642026-10-09 — #632026-10-10 — #632026-10-11 — #672026-10-12 — #752026-10-13 — #702026-10-14 — #702026-10-15 — #66
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
53532026-09-162026-10-142026-09-16: 32 new positive2026-09-16: 21 new negative2026-09-17: 34 new positive2026-09-17: 45 new negative2026-09-18: 30 new positive2026-09-18: 15 new negative2026-09-19: 23 new positive2026-09-19: 25 new negative2026-09-20: 23 new positive2026-09-20: 19 new negative2026-09-21: 21 new positive2026-09-21: 17 new negative2026-09-22: 43 new positive2026-09-22: 18 new negative2026-09-23: 27 new positive2026-09-23: 19 new negative2026-09-24: 21 new positive2026-09-24: 24 new negative2026-09-25: 53 new positive2026-09-25: 31 new negative2026-09-26: 26 new positive2026-09-26: 17 new negative2026-09-27: 27 new positive2026-09-27: 14 new negative2026-09-28: 18 new positive2026-09-28: 20 new negative2026-09-29: 14 new positive2026-09-29: 22 new negative2026-09-30: 20 new positive2026-09-30: 15 new negative2026-10-01: 21 new positive2026-10-01: 7 new negative2026-10-02: 22 new positive2026-10-02: 14 new negative2026-10-03: 19 new positive2026-10-03: 7 new negative2026-10-04: 27 new positive2026-10-04: 9 new negative2026-10-05: 14 new positive2026-10-05: 10 new negative2026-10-06: 28 new positive2026-10-06: 7 new negative2026-10-07: 26 new positive2026-10-07: 7 new negative2026-10-08: 35 new positive2026-10-08: 25 new negative2026-10-09: 13 new positive2026-10-09: 21 new negative2026-10-10: 16 new positive2026-10-10: 16 new negative2026-10-11: 21 new positive2026-10-11: 11 new negative2026-10-12: 20 new positive2026-10-12: 14 new negative2026-10-13: 21 new positive2026-10-13: 18 new negative2026-10-14: 17 new positive2026-10-14: 9 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Twitch viewers

6042026-10-01 05:34 — 35 viewers2026-10-01 14:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-01 23:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-02 08:34 — 26 viewers2026-10-02 17:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-03 02:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-03 11:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-03 20:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-04 05:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 35 viewers2026-10-04 23:34 — 35 viewers2026-10-05 08:34 — 34 viewers2026-10-05 17:34 — 31 viewers2026-10-06 02:34 — 30 viewers2026-10-06 11:34 — 39 viewers2026-10-06 20:34 — 28 viewers2026-10-07 05:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-07 14:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-07 23:34 — 32 viewers2026-10-08 08:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-08 17:34 — 30 viewers2026-10-09 02:34 — 24 viewers2026-10-09 11:34 — 34 viewers2026-10-09 20:35 — 28 viewers2026-10-10 05:34 — 42 viewers2026-10-10 14:34 — 27 viewers2026-10-10 23:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-11 08:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-11 17:34 — 36 viewers2026-10-12 02:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-12 11:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-12 20:34 — 41 viewers2026-10-13 05:34 — 26 viewers2026-10-13 14:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-13 23:34 — 38 viewers2026-10-14 08:34 — 49 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 57 viewers2026-10-15 02:34 — 53 viewers2026-10-15 04:34 — 42 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

56
achievements tracked
100%
earned "Hero's First Awakening"
64.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCustom Volume ControlsMouse Only Option#category_playable_at_your_own_pacePlayable without Timed InputSteam CloudStatsFamily Sharing7 DLC

16 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish…

Post-launch support: 7 DLC released, first 2026-05-27, latest 2026-07-02 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)19,3350%56

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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