Full game metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 4879470 |
| Live current players | 0 |
| SteamPulse tracked peak | 0 |
| Live count (today's peak floor) | 0 |
| Price | No longer available on Steam Store |
| Free to play | No current Steam offer |
| Discount | Not available |
| Original price USD | Not available |
| Current price USD | Not available |
| Release date | Not available |
| Developer | Not available |
| Publisher | Not available |
| Owners estimated | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate minimum | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate maximum | Not available |
| Review type | Not available |
| Positive review percent | Not available |
| Positive reviews | 0 |
| Negative reviews | 0 |
| Total reviews | 0 |
| Steam recommendations | Not available |
| Achievements | Not available |
| Average playtime forever | Not available |
| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | No |
| Linux support | No |
| Parent game | Not available |
| Store URL | Not available on Steam Store |
Short description
Search a persistent hay pile with millions of candidates and one winning needle. Work strand by strand alone or with up to three friends, sort the mess, sell strange finds, and unlock better tools in a cozy first-person test of patience.
About this game
There is one needle. The pile has four million candidates. The Queen has misplaced her favorite sewing needle in the royal hay store. The kingdom has answered with the only sensible plan: send you into the pile and keep searching until somebody finds it. Needle In a Haystack is a cozy first-person search game for one to four players. There is no deadline, no enemy, and no conventional loss condition. Just an enormous haystack, a small royal problem, and as much time as you need. Search at your own pace. Work carefully through one corner, dig into the middle, or bring friends and divide up the job. The needle is somewhere in there. Finding it is the entire assignment. One strand at a time Every new save begins with empty hands. Grab a strand, inspect it, and drop it where you want. Move searched hay aside and gradually work your way through the mound. Bent nails, straight pins, wire, crystals, ores, and other finds are mixed into the pile. Some look promising until you get a closer look. Others are genuinely valuable, even if they aren't what the Queen asked for. Your personal and shared search totals track the work along the way. Every suspicious little object is another reason to stop and look. Some are worth keeping. Some are worth crowns. Only one wins the game. Share the impossible job Search alone or bring up to three friends. Customize your villagers and enter one shared world with one shared needle. Split up the work, compare suspicious finds, or gather around whatever somebody insists is definitely the needle this time. Each player contributes to the same search, and when one person finally finds it, the whole party wins. Want a few more hands? Hire peasants to help spot valuable finds, then upgrade them to collect and sell those finds at the Royal Quartermaster while you keep searching. Even an impossible royal assignment gets easier when somebody else is doing some of the work. You don't have to finish in one sitting. The host's save keeps the shared pile and each participant's progress, including tools, crowns, and contribution statistics. Return to that same save to pick up where your party left off, or start a separate search with its own…
Supported languages
English * * languages with full audio support