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Toonstruck cover art

Toonstruck

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

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

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!

Toonstruck is an Adventure game released in 2016, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (97% of 288 reviews).

1
playing now
97%
positive of 288 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
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)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 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

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.2k–17k copies

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

Current store prices

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 25 of 69 observed days · $17.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820162026Week of 2016-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.692015-02-112026-10-142015-02-11 — best price $9.992015-06-21 — best price $9.992016-05-24 — best price $3.992016-11-16 — best price $9.992017-04-17 — best price $9.992017-11-07 — best price $9.992018-02-12 — best price $9.992018-04-16 — best price $6.992018-07-20 — best price $3.392018-11-12 — best price $3.392019-02-08 — best price $4.992019-08-26 — best price $9.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-07-31 — best price $3.492021-02-11 — best price $7.992021-10-28 — best price $6.992022-08-05 — best price $9.992022-11-23 — best price $9.992023-01-14 — best price $9.992023-07-20 — best price $6.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-05-07 — best price $7.992024-09-16 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $7.992025-04-03 — best price $9.992025-09-11 — best price $9.992025-11-06 — best price $15.992026-02-12 — best price $15.992026-08-31 — best price $19.992026-09-10 — best price $19.992026-09-20 — best price $19.992026-09-30 — best price $15.992026-10-10 — best price $19.992026-10-14 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

368502026-05-31 — 106 pageviews2026-06-04 — 84 pageviews2026-06-08 — 75 pageviews2026-06-12 — 87 pageviews2026-06-16 — 74 pageviews2026-06-20 — 85 pageviews2026-06-24 — 75 pageviews2026-06-28 — 84 pageviews2026-07-02 — 111 pageviews2026-07-06 — 60 pageviews2026-07-10 — 63 pageviews2026-07-14 — 79 pageviews2026-07-18 — 73 pageviews2026-07-22 — 103 pageviews2026-07-26 — 337 pageviews2026-07-30 — 82 pageviews2026-08-03 — 67 pageviews2026-08-07 — 64 pageviews2026-08-11 — 79 pageviews2026-08-15 — 78 pageviews2026-08-19 — 66 pageviews2026-08-23 — 111 pageviews2026-08-27 — 368 pageviews2026-08-31 — 240 pageviews2026-09-04 — 181 pageviews2026-09-08 — 122 pageviews2026-09-12 — 67 pageviews2026-09-16 — 110 pageviews2026-09-20 — 85 pageviews2026-09-24 — 96 pageviews2026-09-28 — 118 pageviews2026-10-02 — 139 pageviews2026-10-06 — 124 pageviews2026-10-09 — 78 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Player tags

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Census log

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

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