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High Entropy: Challenges

High Entropy: Challenges

Use computers (via GUIs or the command line), unlock doors, crawl through vents, fight enemies head on or find other ways to neutralize or avoid them...

Released Sep 1, 2020 Developer Álvaro García (binarynonsense) Platforms Windows ActionAdventureImmersive SimFree to PlaySingleplayer
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

95.6%positive1,227 reviews
Recommended · 4 found this helpful

“I felt compelled to compliment this game on just how well built it is as an indie game. Everything feels well made. The movement feels good and natural. The physics is minimal but stable, predictable, and doesn't cause frustration. The levels have a cohesive aesthetic. The guns…”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Reminds me a lot of System Shock, Bioshock, Deus Ex, Prey and Half-Life. Which means this game is awesome. Try it out for yourself. Majority of the puzzles are easy but there are some hard ones. Harder than the hard puzzles, however, are the challenges. Especially finding all…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“(Beaten 50% Ending B) || B- Like some of the ideas in the game and the computer terminal concept is great, but not so much the level design. It gets repetitive pretty fast and some parts need you to wait for very very slow enemies to walk by so you can proceed, which makes the…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:36 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

0playing at last check
424-hour peak
152all-time peak
0 50 100 2021 2022 2023 2024 50 avg · Sep 2020

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.

46achievements
6.0%median completion
0.9%rarest: Apprentice of Fists
86.2% of players 75.6% of players 51.8% of players 51.5% of players 32.8% of players 32.5% of players 21.8% of players 20.8% of players 14.4% of players 12.7% of players 12.2% of players 12.1% of players 9.6% of players 8.8% of players 8.7% of players 8.4% of players 7.8% of players 7.3% of players 7.2% of players 6.7% of players 6.6% of players 6.4% of players 6.3% of players 6.0% of players 5.8% of players 5.6% of players 5.6% of players 4.9% of players 4.9% of players 4.6% of players 4.5% of players 4.3% of players 2.3% of players 1.7% of players 1.6% of players 1.5% of players 1.4% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 86.2% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
86.2%Shocking — In level 1, unlock the door.
75.6%Use the Force — In level 2, make a path to the elevator.
51.8%Is Anyone There? — In level 4, make the bot react to a noise.
Rarest badges of honor
0.9%Apprentice of Fists — Earn the 5 Study of Fists achievements.
1.0%Apprentice of Shadows — Earn the 5 Study of Shadows achievements.
1.0%Paper Hoarder — In level 15, collect all the available origamis.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

Freecurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
Freelowest since tracking began2026-07-11

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Oct 09, 2025
Patch 1.4.2

Fixed the "Back" button in the command line interface auto-typing "gui" when clicking it while there was a telnet connection open, which did nothing. It now types "quit", which closes the telnet conec

Oct 04, 2025
Patch 1.4.1

Fixed the objectives list in level 7 always showing the "remain undetected or collect 2 scrap parts" one as completed.Updated Unity, the engine I use, to a newer version that fixes a recently discover

Jun 16, 2025
Update 1.4

The main feature this update adds is gamepad support. The game can now be played using one and all the controls, prompts, menus and user interfaces in general have been adapted for that type of input

May 02, 2025
Patch 1.3.6

- Fixed a door being unlocked in level 11 that shouldn't be (it leads to an empty room so it really wasn't that important). - Fixed part of the bathroom floor intersecting with the vents floor in leve

Apr 27, 2025
Patch 1.3.5

- Made some changes to the level loading code to try to fix a rare bug that makes the global illumination not load correctly in some computers and only some times, making the levels appear very dark,

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, Free To Play
Player tagsAction · Adventure · Immersive Sim · Free to Play · Singleplayer · First-Person · Stealth · FPS · Robots · 3D · Action-Adventure · Indie (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish - Spain
ControllerFull support
Achievements46
Estimated owners50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttp://www.binarynonsense.com/games/hec/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Ryzen 5 3500U Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Radeon Vega 8 Storage: 4 GB available space Additional Notes: Previous versions of Windows and less powerful hardware may work but haven't been tested.