Just Read The Instructions
Short description
Fight off thousands of enemies with a variety of powerful weapons in this surreal co-op shooter. Enter a simulation controlled by a corrupted AI to disrupt and destroy it. Explore procedural worlds, eliminate enemies, break logic, and watch it all collapse.
- Developer
- Knackelibang Productions
- Publisher
- Knackelibang Productions
- Release
- Tue, Apr 16, 2024
- Price
- $9.99
- Reviews
- 37
- Positive
- 49%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Action, Indie, Early Access
- Features
- Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op, Partial Controller Support
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $9.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Sep 20, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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