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Tinhead cover art

Tinhead

Microprose · Piko Interactive LLC · 2019-08-23

SteamGOG

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: 1994 (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis), Apr 15, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)

Leap, slide, hop, fly and shoot your way through wacky worlds and super-tricky challenging levels as you guide Tinhead to free the stars. Take on pesky spinning Krystals, relentless flying Saw-Sirs and hordes of mega-tough bosses.

Tinhead is an $8.99 Action and Adventure game released in 2019, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (50% of 14 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-28

50%
positive of 14 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
59/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
$8.99
steam price (US)
Tinhead is a 1993 platform video game developed by MicroProse and published by Ballistic for the Sega Genesis. Piko Interactive acquired the rights to the game and released a canceled Super Nintendo Entertainment System version in 2015.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 88% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$3.19-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 12 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120212024Week of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$3.192026-09-282026-10-142026-09-28 — best price $3.192026-09-29 — best price $3.192026-09-30 — best price $3.192026-10-01 — best price $3.192026-10-02 — best price $3.192026-10-03 — best price $3.192026-10-04 — best price $3.192026-10-05 — best price $3.192026-10-06 — best price $3.192026-10-07 — best price $7.992026-10-08 — best price $7.992026-10-09 — best price $7.992026-10-10 — best price $7.992026-10-11 — best price $7.992026-10-12 — best price $3.192026-10-13 — best price $3.192026-10-14 — best price $3.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Census log

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

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