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Zapper: One Wicked Cricket cover art

Zapper: One Wicked Cricket

Blitz Games Ltd · Atari · 2024-02-15

SteamGOGXbox

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Oct 09, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 03, 2002 (Xbox), Aug 09, 2005 (PlayStation 2), Nov 16, 2002 (Nintendo GameCube)

In this action-adventure game, Zapper (a cricket) hops his way through six worlds in a quest to find his brother, held captive by the evil magpie queen. Dangerous traps and even more dangerous enemies await! It will take skill and timing to conquer all the worlds and survive the final showdown.

71%
positive of 82 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)
Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! is a platform game for the Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, and Microsoft Windows. For most platforms, it was developed by Blitz Games and published by Infogrames; Atomic Planet Entertainment developed the Game Boy Advance version. Zapper was released in North America in 2002 and 2003 in Europe. On November 17, 2008, Zapper became available on Xbox Live as part of the Xbox Originals range. On February 15, 2024, Zapper was re-released for Microsoft Windows on GOG.com and Steam platforms.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 25,636 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 82 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.09-70%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.09-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.09 at Steam (2026-10-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 36 of 66 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620242026Week of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$2.092024-02-152026-10-092024-02-15 — best price $6.992024-05-24 — best price $6.992024-06-19 — best price $5.592024-08-07 — best price $5.592024-09-17 — best price $5.242024-10-28 — best price $4.892024-12-04 — best price $6.992025-01-03 — best price $6.992025-02-21 — best price $6.992025-03-20 — best price $6.992025-05-01 — best price $3.842025-05-29 — best price $3.842025-07-10 — best price $6.992025-09-11 — best price $6.992025-09-29 — best price $3.492025-10-16 — best price $3.492025-11-05 — best price $6.992025-12-11 — best price $3.142026-01-15 — best price $2.792026-02-12 — best price $2.792026-03-19 — best price $2.792026-04-09 — best price $2.792026-05-19 — best price $2.792026-06-17 — best price $2.792026-07-15 — best price $2.792026-08-25 — best price $2.452026-09-18 — best price $6.992026-09-22 — best price $6.992026-09-26 — best price $2.452026-09-30 — best price $2.452026-10-04 — best price $2.452026-10-08 — best price $6.992026-10-09 — best price $2.09
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

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch

Player tags

3DCuteFunnyActionArcadeLinearCartoonyColorfulTop-DownPlatformer

Census log

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

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