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Understand

Artless Games · 2020-10-30

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 07, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 30, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.

13
playing now
91%
positive of 838 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

13 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 23% of 9,617 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 17k–38k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 838 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.79 at Steam (2021-06-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1712026-08-12 04:00 — 8 players2026-08-12 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 03:00 — 5 players2026-08-14 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-16 03:00 — 8 players2026-08-16 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-17 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 10 players2026-08-18 18:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 10:00 — 5 players2026-08-20 02:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 9 players2026-08-21 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 17 players2026-08-24 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 10 players2026-08-25 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 13 players2026-08-28 00:00 — 10 players2026-08-28 16:00 — 7 players2026-08-29 03:00 — 9 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 7 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 13 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$2.792020-10-312026-07-092020-10-31 — best price $3.392020-12-22 — best price $2.992021-02-11 — best price $2.992021-06-24 — best price $2.792021-10-28 — best price $2.992021-11-24 — best price $2.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-01-27 — best price $2.992022-05-19 — best price $2.792022-06-23 — best price $2.792022-11-22 — best price $2.792022-12-22 — best price $2.792023-01-19 — best price $2.792023-03-16 — best price $2.792023-04-24 — best price $2.792023-06-29 — best price $2.792023-08-03 — best price $2.792023-11-21 — best price $2.792023-12-21 — best price $2.792024-02-12 — best price $2.792024-03-14 — best price $2.792024-05-23 — best price $2.792024-06-27 — best price $2.792024-11-27 — best price $2.792024-12-19 — best price $2.792025-01-27 — best price $2.792025-03-13 — best price $2.792025-05-29 — best price $2.792025-06-27 — best price $2.792025-10-01 — best price $2.792025-12-01 — best price $2.792025-12-18 — best price $2.792026-02-16 — best price $2.792026-03-19 — best price $2.792026-05-28 — best price $2.792026-06-25 — best price $2.792026-07-09 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
71.6%
earned "○-□"
13.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

29 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Turkish…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,19920%13
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DIndieLogicCasualPuzzleAbstractDifficultEducationMinimalistMouse only

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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