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The Impossible Game

Grip Games · Fluke Games · 2014-05-08

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 05, 2010 (Android), May 08, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 23, 2009 (Xbox 360), Sep 07, 2011 (PlayStation Portable), Feb 15, 2012 (PlayStation Vita), Oct 14, 2010 (Windows Phone)

The super-addictive and very, very hard platform game finally arrives on Steam - it's quite possibly the world's hardest game! As well as five classic Impossible Game levels, this desktop version includes an EXCLUSIVE new Level Editor.

1
playing now
84%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

The Impossible Game is a 2009 one-button platform game developed and published by Fluke Games. The objective is to guide a cube over spikes and pits. The Windows, macOS and Linux port was developed by Grip Games. First released in 2009, for the Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Indie Games, The Impossible Game received generally mixed reviews.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 20% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 38k–92k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,527 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Humble Store (2018-08-30) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

502026-08-11 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.742015-01-012020-12-092015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-01-13 — best price $4.992015-05-18 — best price $0.992015-05-22 — best price $4.992015-06-22 — best price $4.992015-09-05 — best price $0.992015-09-11 — best price $0.992016-01-15 — best price $0.992016-02-05 — best price $3.492016-05-05 — best price $1.692016-05-20 — best price $4.992016-07-04 — best price $4.992017-01-13 — best price $4.992017-05-25 — best price $4.992017-09-21 — best price $4.992017-11-28 — best price $4.992018-01-25 — best price $4.992018-05-24 — best price $4.992018-09-13 — best price $4.992018-11-27 — best price $4.992019-05-27 — best price $4.992019-09-12 — best price $4.992019-09-18 — best price $4.992019-11-26 — best price $1.242020-01-09 — best price $1.242020-01-23 — best price $4.992020-05-21 — best price $4.992020-12-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
71.6%
earned "999x"
10.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,37612%12

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

Player tags

2DIndieMusicCasualRhythmAddictiveDifficultPlatformerLevel EditorSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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