Steam app 716490 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 21:13 UTC
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.
299 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
98 months, August 2018 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 166 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 133 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
EXAPUNKS was released on 22 Oct, 2018.
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16 achievements in total.
29 developer announcements, Aug 2018 to Oct 2022 · times in UTC
Today's update includes the following changes: Fixed an issue where the mouse would sometimes be misaligned on Macbooks. Changed histograms to pull from a local file rather than our live histogram server.
Patch notesToday's update fixes a bug where the custom puzzle list did not update when a puzzle was deleted, which could lead to a crash when attempting to delete the puzzle again. Thanks go out to the embarrassingly large number of people who…
Patch notesBoot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re…
krispykremToday's update fixes the crash handler and histograms. Nothing else should be affected.
Patch notesThanks to the magic of on-demand printing, we're finally able to offer EXAPUNKS zines that are the same quality as our original print run from 2018. They're quite snazzy!…
krispykremToday's update fixes a minor graphical issue in the options screen background.
Patch notesThis update fixes an obscure bug where bad histogram data could cause the game to crash.
Patch notesThe same rules apply as last time: you have two weeks to submit up to two solutions for the selected hacker battle (Valhalla). Solutions will be run against each other and hopefully a clear winner will emerge. Full details here…
krispykremToday's update fixes a bug where the game would sometimes fail to detect keyboard input when typing code quickly while the game was running at a low framerate.
krispykremIf hacker battling your Steam friends on an individual basis isn't dramatic enough for you, consider participating in the first sanctioned EXAPUNKS hacker battle competition! There's a little less than a week remaining for you to submit…
krispykremToday's update fixes a bug with the hacker battle win counter where it was sometimes off by one but almost completely obscured so that you couldn't see it anyway.
krispykremAfter a few months of bug fixes, feature improvements, and the addition of a new bonus campaign, EXAPUNKS has left Early Access! To mark the release we're offering a 20% launch discount, available for the next week. If you missed the…
krispykremToday's update includes the following changes: Added an animated GIF recorder, which can be used to create animated GIFs of your solutions to puzzles and battles. We're still iterating on the logic that determines which parts are…
krispykremToday's update includes the following changes: Improved the performance of goal verification, which should hopefully speed up the verification process for late-game puzzles. Fixed a bug where some characters were not displayed in the labels…
krispykremToday's update includes the following changes: Restored the ability to completely collapse an EXA window. You can now click through the collapse settings from full, to condensed, to fully collapsed. Decreased the size limit for…
krispykremToday's update includes the following changes: Added a new achievement for beating all of the bonus puzzles. Improved the performance of collision detection in the Redshift. Fixed a bug where undocked EXA windows would sometimes cause the…
krispykremAlthough this isn't part of today's change, we're going to be releasing a free TEC Redshift Player on Steam in the next few days, as soon as it's approved. This will allow your friends and colleagues who do not (yet) own EXAPUNKS to play…
krispykremToday's update includes the first set of changes inspired directly by player feedback as we get ready to leave Early Access. Full details are as follows: Added an animation for when EXAs communicate using the M register. Added the ability…
krispykremLots of changes here today, including a brand new bonus campaign with nine puzzles exploring the lives and hacks of the rest of the EXAPUNKS hackers in chat. Build a wardialer with =plastered! Hack a new MMO with mutex8021! All this and…
krispykremToday's update includes the following changes: Fixed a bug where the game rendered at the wrong size when running on a Mac with a Retina display configured to a non-default DPI. Added a setting to the in-game options to force the game to…
krispykremToday's update includes the following: Added an option to increase the size of the code font. Added support for pressing Ctrl+O to open the solution browser screen. Added support for PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End in the puzzle list. Added…
krispykremToday's update includes the following changes: Fixed a bug that made it impossible to jump to a label generated by a macro from a jump instruction outside of the macro. Fixed a bug where the game would freeze when expanding a very large…
krispykremToday's update includes the following changes: Added full cycles and activity information to the puzzle completion screen, accessed through the "SHOW TEST RUN DATA" button. Improved text rendering for code and files. Improved the…
krispykremToday's update includes the following changes: Added searchable text to the "digital versions" of the zine PDFs. It's OCR so it's not perfect, but it seems to have gotten most of the key text and should be better than nothing. Fixed a bug…
krispykremToday's update includes the following changes: Fixed a bug where you could use M in global mode to communicate across non-existent links, like in the "modem" puzzles. This will invalidate some players' solutions to these puzzles, so the…
krispykremToday's update includes a mix of bug fixes: Improved the descriptions and requirements of a few puzzles. Modified the "link ID indicators" on a few puzzles to be more obvious. Fixed a bug where EXAs in the player's host did not disappear…
krispykremWe've sold out of limited edition upgrades, so we probably shouldn't be advertising them in-game anymore...
krispykremToday's update includes the following changes: Fixed a bug where files would sometimes overlap when the "SHOW GOAL" button is held. Fixed a bug with run-to-instruction when the code contained an error. Fixed a bug where '.' and '!' were…
krispykremToday's update fixes a bug where Redshift disc images exported on low-resolution systems would be blurry and a very minor typo in chat. Pretty smooth launch, I guess.
krispykremWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | EXAPUNKS.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | EXAPUNKS.app/Contents/MacOS/EXAPUNKS | macos | ||
| Launch | EXAPUNKS | linux |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
| Root | Folder | Files |
|---|---|---|
gameinstall | {64BitSteamID} | save.dat |
gameinstall | {64BitSteamID} | *.solution |
gameinstall | {64BitSteamID}/custom | *.js |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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