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Toonstruck cover art

Toonstruck

Burst · Interplay Entertainment Corp. · 2016-11-15

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 30, 1996 (DOS), Nov 30, 1996 (Mac), Nov 30, 1996 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Toonstruck combines live action, cell animation, and an all star cast: Christopher Lloyd, Ben Stein, Dan Castellaneta, Tim Curry, and Dom DeLuise, for a not-to-be-missed adventure through a zany cartoon world on the brink of total Malevalation!

0
playing now
97%
positive of 288 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
88/100
IGDB user rating (43 ratings)
6.2h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Toonstruck is a graphic adventure video game developed by Burst Studios, published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and released in 1996 for DOS. The game uses hand-drawn imagery and animated characters, but the protagonist Drew Blanc is represented as a video-captured live action character interacting with the cartoon world around him. In the game, Blanc is transported into the cartoon world he created while suffering from a creative block. Blanc is accompanied by his animated sidekick Flux Wildly.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 49% of 11,322 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.2k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 288 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$15.99-20%
GOG$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.69 at GOG (2018-10-11) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 18 of 30 observed days · $17.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.692015-02-112026-08-302015-02-11 — best price $9.992015-06-18 — best price $9.992016-01-03 — best price $9.992016-07-15 — best price $3.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-04-17 — best price $9.992017-11-01 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $4.992018-02-19 — best price $9.992018-05-04 — best price $3.392018-07-20 — best price $3.392018-10-29 — best price $3.392018-12-20 — best price $3.392019-06-13 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $9.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-06-25 — best price $3.392020-12-16 — best price $3.992021-06-28 — best price $9.992021-11-24 — best price $6.992022-08-05 — best price $9.992022-11-16 — best price $6.992022-12-22 — best price $6.992023-06-11 — best price $7.992023-08-03 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $7.992024-10-16 — best price $7.992025-01-03 — best price $9.992025-04-03 — best price $9.992025-08-23 — best price $9.992025-10-28 — best price $7.992026-01-03 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $13.992026-08-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

372472026-05-31 — 106 pageviews2026-06-03 — 95 pageviews2026-06-06 — 90 pageviews2026-06-09 — 104 pageviews2026-06-12 — 87 pageviews2026-06-15 — 92 pageviews2026-06-18 — 79 pageviews2026-06-21 — 89 pageviews2026-06-24 — 75 pageviews2026-06-27 — 78 pageviews2026-06-30 — 71 pageviews2026-07-03 — 91 pageviews2026-07-06 — 60 pageviews2026-07-09 — 75 pageviews2026-07-12 — 92 pageviews2026-07-15 — 79 pageviews2026-07-18 — 73 pageviews2026-07-21 — 85 pageviews2026-07-24 — 77 pageviews2026-07-27 — 119 pageviews2026-07-30 — 82 pageviews2026-08-02 — 72 pageviews2026-08-05 — 65 pageviews2026-08-08 — 78 pageviews2026-08-11 — 79 pageviews2026-08-14 — 81 pageviews2026-08-17 — 93 pageviews2026-08-20 — 156 pageviews2026-08-23 — 111 pageviews2026-08-26 — 372 pageviews2026-08-28 — 181 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Player tags

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Census log

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