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Find The Needle Demo

Released 10 September 2026Free

The demo of Find The Needle. Every figure here is from the demo’s own reviews.

One of the 25 demos in our October 2026 Next Fest report

Players recommending the game

90%Very Positive

of all 1,361 reviews on Steam

92%▲ 2

recommend the game, last 7 days

267▲ 22%

new reviews, last 7 days
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Review Map Mapped 26 October

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Recommended, last 7 days245Not recommended, last 7 days22Recommend the game, last 7 days92%

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DayRecommendedNot recommendedRecommending the game
12 October, 7 days before33294%
13 October, 7 days before22292%
14 October, 7 days before29585%
15 October, 7 days before25293%
16 October, 7 days before38197%
17 October, 7 days before180100%
18 October, 7 days before40295%
19 October, last 7 days36490%
20 October, last 7 days29294%
21 October, last 7 days28390%
22 October, last 7 days31294%
23 October, last 7 days38588%
24 October, last 7 days41198%
25 October, last 7 days42589%

Most helpful reviews, 19 to 25 October

Steam’s top-ranked review for and against the game in these 7 days, in English. Votes as they stood when this map was made.

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Recommended2 found it helpful6 hours at review12 hours in total when mapped19 Oct

This must be the weirdest combination of genius and stupid at the same time. The game feels in it's first moments like you're a prisoner whom has been sentinced to finding needles in a giant haystack, then you find out they're going to pay you like 1 cent per needle, which still amounts to millions if you take your job seriously, and suddenly you don't feel like a prisoner, but a business owner. I'm actually reinstalling the demo because this busy work has the right combination of elements to actually be weirdly appealing. My only criticism is that I can't set up more places to sell my rolls of hay made paper, since the default one is getting clogged by production lines, and as the haystack starts to 'move' my framerates are annihilated.

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Not recommended22 found it helpful3 hours at review3 hours in total when mapped25 Oct

It is fun however it is a copy of the original needle in a haystack game called Needle In A Haystack Simulator by Studio Bitdot. don't buy this version when it comes out buy the original.

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Reviews by language

How many of the game’s reviews are in its main languages, with the rest together, and how many in each recommend the game.

1,361reviews
8 languages · point at one
LanguageReviewsSharePlayers recommending the gameThe line marks all languages together, 90%. The chip shows how far each language is above or below it.
English61545%
89%−1
Russian18013%
88%−2
German15411%
92%+2
Turkish1027%
91%+1
Simplified Chinese725%
85%−5
Korean423%
93%+3
French312%
100%+10
Japanese252%
84%−6
Other languages14010%

All reviews ever, as Steam counts them. Each language named has its own Steam score; Other languages holds every other language together.