
Tackle. Die. Repeat. Use American football skills to dash through a bloody 2D underworld. Fast, top-down carnage until the floor is cleared. You’re at the top of your game... but unfortunately, your C.T.E. is catching up.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.17/day in the week to Jul 21 → 0.2/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Tackle for Loss is a 2D top-down action game that puts you in the shoes of a former American football pro. Utilizing his unique set of football skills, you'll navigate a gritty underworld, battling enemies on a desperate mission to save a loved one. Violent combat, a gripping narrative, and dark pixel art combine to create a high-impact experience inspired by the likes of Hotline Miami.
Combat is built around a brutal twist on American football’s four-down rule: you get four tackles - total - to clear each level. No button mashing. Just four perfectly placed tackles between you and the end zone. Sounds impossible? It kind of is.

Football Infused Combat
Killstreak Mechanic
Unlockable Skillpath
Gamepad & Keyboard Support
Badass soundtrack by real musicians
Runs at 90 FPS on Steam Deck
Languages: English, German
Auto-Translation: Spanish, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish
(please contact me if you find any errors - there will be some!)

TACKLE: Move through enemy lines like a knife through butter and rack up killstreak points.

SPIKE: Grab your enemies with a lethal grip and smash them into pieces with this melee attack.

PIGSKIN: Use your deadly precision in this ranged attack.
SKILLPATH: Rapidly eliminating enemies extends combo chains and increases score multipliers, rewarding players for aggressive and strategic gameplay. Unique moves and attacks can be unlocked through progression. By experimenting with a variety of skills and perks, players can develop and refine a variety of combat styles.

Tackle for Loss is a game solo-developed by Indifferent Penguin / Daniel Wichterich. That means I am the only person working full-time on this game. During development, I’ve been fortunate to meet people who have contributed in meaningful ways, whether through their creative work, valuable feedback, or support.
Nik Neumetzler – Key Art
Riccardo Berndt – Additional Pixel Art
BaerSerker-Art – Promotion
The team at 1UP - PR & Marketing
AI Disclosure
Tackle for Loss does not use generative AI in the final product. While I experimented with it during the prototyping phase, all the content you’ll see and hear in the game was created by real people. However, the dialogues of Tackle for Loss have been translated with DeepL for languages other than English and German in order to make the game accessible to more people. I believe this is AI, right?
Funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

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Reviews
Just starting the game still, but overall its a very fun and snappy "Hotline Miami"-like in a very good sense. The controls are tight and snappy and the level design keeps you thinking "I can do this better/faster." Great loops, fun upgrades so far, and a story that is delightfully 80/90s action camp. An easy to justify purchase imo.
Love the attention to detail in here! so much to discover and fun gameplay!
Absoluter Banger!! Tackle for Loss hat mich ehrlich überrascht und komplett abgeholt. Von Beginn an ist man einfach gefesselt von der Story und dem Gameplay das echt süchtig macht und an mancher Stelle auch herausfordert. Fühlt sich einfach SO gut an ein schwieriges Level zu schaffen ngl. Das rasante Feeling kommt nicht zuletzt auch durch die Musik, die einfach den perfekten Beat zum Tackeln liefert. Ich hab mich schnell erwischt im klassischen "ach nur noch ein Try" bis ich die Passage geschafft hatte. Ganz klare Empfehlung mit hohem Wiederspielwert 🔥
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Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish
Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Banger game! They 100% caught Hotline Miami's artstyle, music and storytelling and surprised me in everyone of these categories. There's interesting skills to unlock to make different builds and a challenge mode after you beat the game. Combat is fun, fast and exciting. The art is beautifully crafted especially if you're into pixelart 9.5/10 OST has many bangers 9/10 Storytelling is dark and captivating 8/10 All in all, an amazing game
ENG First of all, I want to thank the development team for gifting me the game. I've tried many new games recently, and some were truly terrible. Others were only moderately good. This game shines like a star among them. I thoroughly enjoyed playing it. I loved the graphics. They've done a fantastic job visually. Admittedly, the game's cover art is amazing. It looks exactly like a desktop background. You could even hang it as a poster in your house. It would be great if they added more visuals related to the game to the game files. The reason I praise the graphics so much is because they didn't skimp on quality. Considering it's an indie game, they deserve a lot of praise in this regard. As for the gameplay, it's definitely very difficult. I certainly didn't expect it to be this challenging. But I want to try again. I usually delete most new games I play. But this one definitely deserves to be tried again and again. Apart from that, I didn't encounter any bugs. The fact that it has Turkish language support is also very pleasing. TR Öncelikle oyunun keyini hediye ettikleri için yapımcı ekibe çok teşekkür ederim. Yakın zamanda birçok yeni oyun denedim ve birkaçı gerçekten berbattı. Diğerleri ise kısmen güzel sayılabilecek durumaydı. Bu oyun ise o oyunlar arasında yıldız gibi parlıyor. Oynarken oldukça keyif aldım. Grafiklere bayıldım. Görsel anlamda harika bir iş çıkarmışlar. İtiraf etmek gerekirse oyunun kapak fotoğrafı harika. Tam olarak masaüstü fotoğrafı gibi görünüyor. Poster olarak evinize dahi asabilirsiniz. Oyunun dosyalarının içerisine oyunla ilgili görseller eklerseler bu harika olur. Grafikleri bu kadar övmemin sebebi bu konuda herhangi bir üşengeçlikte bulunmamaları. Indie bir yapım olduğunu düşünecek olursak bu konuda fazlasıyla övülmeyi hak ediyorlar. Oynanışa gelecek olursak kesinlikle çok zor. Bu kadar zorlanacağımı kesinlikle düşünmüyordum. Fakat tekrar denemek istiyorum. Normalde oynadığım yeni oyunların çoğunu silerim. Ama bu kesinlikle tekrar tekrar denenmeyi hak ediyor. Bunun dışında herhangi bir bug ile karşılaşmadım. TÜRKÇE dil desteğinin olması da oldukça mutlu edici. Yayında yaklaşık 40 dakika oynadım. Aşağıdaki linkten izleyebilirsiniz. https://www.youtube.com/live/626GIyQ_paM?si=Oa5mJXwHlhzujXpB
el juego es divertido de esos juegos que tienen historia, y jugabilidad que te recuerdan los 90's, recomendadisimo
Great game with a captivating story. Challenging but not unfair and absolutely worth the dollar amount to pick it up!
It's a football style hotline miami. Was pretty fun even in alpha! This dev is great, check out his work! :3
Esse jogo me fez repensar um pouco meus critérios com jogos porque confesso que não é exatamente o tipo de jogo que me chamaria a atenção mas eu quebrei minha cara. é muito divertido e achei até que bastante desafiador você vai ter que pensar bastante em como eliminar os inimigos e utilizar da mecânica de combos pra conseguir ter êxito. dou um destaque aqui pra arte do jogo, iluminação e trilha sonora que achei muito boas também.
I liked it! It's absolutely reminiscent of Hotline Miami but it doesnt shy away from that. In fact it leans into it :) Solid game in its own right if the gameplay is familiar the puzzles you work out with that gameplay are fresh and fun
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