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EXAPUNKS
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Around 5 years ago I started working in IT and tried the game for the first time - it didn't go well, I got completely stuck halfway through. 5 years later I'm giving it another go and now I'm halfway through the bonus campaign. So here goes a pro tip for you guys: just invest 5…”
— a player, Steam review · 65 hrs played“Zachtronics' develops some of the most unique games in the industry. Their titles are genuinely hard to compare to anything else. In EXAPUNKS, you solve programming puzzles that do an excellent job of teaching low-level concepts like registers and instruction sets. The core…”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“This is probably my favourite Zachtronics game ever. Add the fact that it works natively on Linux gives me all the more reason to recommend this game to everyone. The only other Zachtronics game I've played is Opus Magnum, and while I do think that Opus Magnum is quite good for…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:53 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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UPDATE: Miscellaneous fixes
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 ser
UPDATE: Fixing a crash when deleting custom puzzles
Today'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 embarrass
Last Call BBS - The last game by Zachtronics!
Boot 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
UPDATE: Fixing the crash handler and histograms
Today's update fixes the crash handler and histograms. Nothing else should be affected.
Physical EXAPUNKS zines are available again!
Thanks 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! A complete set with both issu
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Programming · Puzzle · Hacking · Automation · Indie · Simulation · Logic · Cyberpunk · Singleplayer · Difficult · Great Soundtrack · Sandbox (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 16 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 Processor: 2.0 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 1366 x 768 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 660 MB available space