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Flinthook
Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Damn, clearing the true ending took some time. The game varies in difficulty between trivially easy and ridiculously unfair. Room filled with enemies that can't shoot and just wait to die - very easy. Room filled with double-shielded green enemies with the double damage bane and…”
— a player, Steam review · 31 hrs played“I really dig the pixel art in this game, and the gameplay is super dynamic and fun to master., biuIt does get pretty difficult towards the end. I got distracted by other games, so I never finished it.”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:09 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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Changelist for r20152
Changelist for r20152 New Features Added an option to the launcher to give access to our mouse mode prototypes. Can also be used as a command line argument. "-MouseMode= " RadialFreeMoonwalk being the
Changelist for r20152
Changelist for r20152 New Features Added an option to the launcher to give access to our mouse mode prototypes. Can also be used as a command line argument. "-MouseMode= " RadialFreeMoonwalk being the
Dual stick(AKA Pro mode) support - Changelist for r19784
This is a pretty important update. We take people's comments seriously. With this one we needed to take our time, digest everyone's input on this and go back to the drawing board. During our prototype
Dual stick(AKA Pro mode) support - Changelist for r19784
This is a pretty important update. We take people's comments seriously. With this one we needed to take our time, digest everyone's input on this and go back to the drawing board. During our prototype
Changelist for r19724
Improvements Improved hook shot targeting to prioritize bubbles. Raised the time limit between some damage-over-time effects to -1 hp/20 seconds. Balanced the ComboBlaster perk to increase critical bo
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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 | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Action Roguelike · Indie · Action · Adventure · Pixel Graphics · Rogue-lite · Platformer · Rogue-like · 2D · Singleplayer · Difficult · Loot (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Japanese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 37 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.flinthook.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Vista or later Processor: Intel Core™ Duo or faster Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 compliant video card Storage: 300 MB available space