# EXAPUNKS

Summer DB entity ID: 9e403b68\-bd1f\-43fe\-9219\-948f5fae1d8d

Steam App ID: 716490

The year is 1997\. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage\. You made a deal: one hack, one dose\. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life\.   EXAPUNKS is the latest open\-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of Opus Magnum, SHENZHEN I/O, TIS\-100, and more\.     READ ZINES  \- Learn to hack from TRASH WORLD NEWS, the underground computer magazine\. Tutorials, hacking tips, secret information, searing commentary— TRASH WORLD NEWS has you covered\.    WRITE VIRUSES  \- Program your EXAs \(EXecution Agents\) to tear through networks, replicate themselves, trash files, terminate other EXAs— and leave without a trace\.     HACK EVERYTHING  \- Hack banks, universities, factories, TV stations, highway signs, game consoles, the government\.\.\. oh yeah, and your own body\.    SLACK OFF  \- Play ПАСЬЯНС, if you hack the server where it’s stored\. Or play HACK\*MATCH, if you hack the region lock on your Sawayama WonderDisc\. Or create your own homebrew games for the TEC Redshift… if you hack the development kit\.    TAKE DOWN YOUR FRIENDS  \- Compete with your friends by running your programs directly against theirs in all\-out hacker battles\. Make every cycle count\.    CREATE YOUR OWN PUZZLES  \- Create your own networks to hack, and share them with the world on Steam Workshop\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Zachtronics

- Publisher: Zachtronics

- Release date: Oct 22, 2018

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie, Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud, Steam Leaderboards, Includes level editor, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/716490/ss\_d8d2e9ca43db1c4b35ff2abe6d4da473e32bcc29\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1787697739, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/716490/ss\_095a537be3c4d00052554b9bc639fdc5312db810\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1787697739, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/716490/ss\_38028764e6093da3090c838d394628aa33234d11\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1787697739, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/716490/ss\_6da39c77fdf24e158ec6091d827088494caf8410\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1787697739, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/716490/ss\_a8ba61f54c281447f3a804e264a6828932d5db05\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1787697739, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/716490/ss\_04f3ab44402750e4ffa859050d20a32b09e8c9f7\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1787697739

- Price: 1999 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 7

- Steam review count: 1900

- Steam positive reviews: 1802

- Steam negative reviews: 98

- Steam positive percentage: 94.84210526315789%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/9e403b68-bd1f-43fe-9219-948f5fae1d8d/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/9e403b68-bd1f-43fe-9219-948f5fae1d8d/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T03:56:01\.425606\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T03:56:02\.717955\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T03:56:02\.465034\+00:00

Full provenance: \{"urls":\{"price":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/716490/","catalog":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/IStoreService/GetAppList/v1/","details":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/716490/","players":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/?appid=716490","reviews":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/appreviews/716490"\},"price":"2026\-09\-23T03:56:01\.425606\+00:00","source":"steam","catalog":"2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00","country":"US","details":"2026\-09\-23T03:56:01\.425606\+00:00","players":"2026\-09\-23T03:56:02\.717955\+00:00","reviews":"2026\-09\-23T03:56:02\.465034\+00:00","language":"en","editorial":null,"membership":"store\_catalog","observations":\{"price":"bab0a6d0\-dace\-44c1\-bd24\-2d6e77df904f","catalog":"d93c6200\-44c7\-4f71\-9aa4\-e8cb25fa48e9","details":"7a3db727\-048a\-431a\-87de\-0aeae5ee6341","players":"2440b6c5\-aa38\-47bc\-bb83\-1d67f1003859","reviews":"41bebe99\-940d\-43c3\-9516\-8984d66ff9af"\},"reviewFilters":\{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}\}

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/9e403b68-bd1f-43fe-9219-948f5fae1d8d)