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Won't You Be My Laser? cover art

Won't You Be My Laser?

Chequered Ink Ltd. · 2016-09-02

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 02, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

An 80s-themed puzzle game in which you avoid the line of sight of lethal gun turrets... while acquiring pick-up sticks.

Won't You Be My Laser? is a Casual, Indie game released in 2016, priced at $0.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and Mostly Positive (76% of 93 reviews).

1
playing now
77%
positive of 92 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$0.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.3k–5.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 92 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.30 at Steam (2023-02-27) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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

Players online

302026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$0.99$0.302016-02-062026-03-262016-02-06 — best price $0.992016-11-23 — best price $0.492017-01-02 — best price $0.992017-07-05 — best price $0.992017-10-26 — best price $0.492017-11-28 — best price $0.992018-02-15 — best price $0.492018-04-30 — best price $0.992018-09-11 — best price $0.592018-11-01 — best price $0.992018-12-20 — best price $0.492019-02-11 — best price $0.992019-10-28 — best price $0.492019-12-03 — best price $0.992020-01-23 — best price $0.492020-07-09 — best price $0.992020-11-25 — best price $0.492021-01-05 — best price $0.992021-10-28 — best price $0.492021-12-01 — best price $0.992022-01-27 — best price $0.492022-07-07 — best price $0.992022-10-03 — best price $0.512022-11-29 — best price $0.992023-02-27 — best price $0.302023-03-23 — best price $0.992023-05-22 — best price $0.302023-07-13 — best price $0.992023-11-21 — best price $0.492024-01-04 — best price $0.992024-02-19 — best price $0.492024-04-08 — best price $0.992024-12-19 — best price $0.492025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-12-18 — best price $0.492026-03-26 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
1%
earned "Like Tears In Rain"
1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieCasual

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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