I hate this game

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I hate this game

Short description

I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.

Developer
Pixel Error
Publisher
Pixel Error
Release
Thu, Mar 07, 2019
Price
$1.99
Reviews
2,452
Positive
93%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
100K – 200K
Concurrent players
2
Genres
Indie
Tags
Indie Puzzle Pixel Graphics Great Soundtrack Logic 2D Minimalist Platformer Puzzle-Platformer Funny Singleplayer Memes Experimental Hacking Short Difficult Comedy Programming Dark Humor Casual
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$210ksomewhere between $190k and $373k · roughly 100K–196K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $1.90, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $1.99 launch price. That is 5% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

3 data points since Aug 4, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$209k → ~$210k
Reviews 2,451 → 2,452
Followers 1,875 → 1,875
Concurrent players 2 → 2
Price $1.99 → $1.99
Positive reviews 93.1% → 93.1%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 157 further data points reach back to Mar 1, 2019 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $0.93 on Jun 29, 2023.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around I hate this game is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Indie + Puzzle + Pixel Graphics

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with I hate this game. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Baba Is You Baba Is You Hempuli Oy 3 titles 4 − Great Soundtrack − 2D + Difficult + Singleplayer $14.99 21,100 98% Wed, Mar 13, 2019 $14.6m
$14.6m – $24.7m
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove Yacht Club Games 6 titles 4 − Puzzle − Logic + Platformer + Retro $39.99 14,258 95% Thu, Jun 26, 2014 $17.8m
$13.9m – $27.7m
FEZ FEZ Polytron 2 titles 4 − Logic − 2D + Platformer + Exploration $9.99 11,726 93% Wed, May 01, 2013 $4.9m
$2.2m – $18.5m
Gunpoint Gunpoint Suspicious Developments 5 titles 4 − Great Soundtrack − Logic + Stealth + Singleplayer $9.99 10,276 98% Mon, Jun 03, 2013 $4.6m
$4.6m – $7.6m
Out There Somewhere Out There Somewhere MiniBoss first game 4 − Great Soundtrack − Logic + Platformer + Adventure $9.99 6,157 93% Mon, Mar 14, 2016 $707k
$510k – $1.3m

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