Store data
- UK price
- £5.29
- US price
- $5.09
- Positive reviews
- 76%
- Total reviews
- 243
- Release date
- 29 September 2026
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Needle in a Haystack is a co-op game for up to 6 players about doing exactly what the name suggests.
There’s a needle hidden somewhere among millions of pieces of hay. You know it’s there. You’ve brought your friends to help. This should be manageable.
Troll your friends
Dig together, spread out, or spend far too long arguing about which part of the pile looks promising. There’s plenty of work to share, although bringing more people doesn’t necessarily mean anyone is being particularly helpful.
It’s a game you can settle into while talking with friends, right up until somebody does something that needs explaining.
Get a little carried away
Earn money as you search and spend it on equipment that opens up new ways to tackle the pile. Put together a sensible setup, experiment with what you’ve got, or throw money at an idea your group is absolutely convinced will work.
There’s a lot you can pick up, move around, and throw. You’ll probably find a use for most of it. Whether that use has anything to do with finding a needle is another matter.
Collect them all
Collect all the different needle types and add them to your collection. Each with their own crazy look.
Leave room for distractions
The haystack isn’t the only thing worth paying attention to. There are discoveries tucked away, things happening around you, and plenty of opportunities to abandon a perfectly good plan.
We’d rather let you stumble into those yourself.
Take the search seriously or make an afternoon of it. Just remember where you put the needle if you actually find it.
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|---|---|---|
| 01 | Ach Sell Hay | 96.2% |
| 02 | Ach Find Gold | 83.9% |
| 03 | Ach Find Diamond | 73.8% |
| 04 | Ach Buy Conveyor | 72.2% |
| 05 | Ach Press Bale | 63.3% |
| 06 | Ach Sell Bale | 62.4% |
| 07 | Ach Find Lapis | 61.1% |
| 08 | Ach Arm Delivery | 58.5% |
| 09 | Ach Seeing Things | 57.4% |
| 10 | Ach Pay Tribute | 57.3% |
| 11 | Ach Claw Prize | 55.0% |
| 12 | Ach Complete Run | 51.8% |
| 13 | Ach Air Support | 49.2% |
| 14 | Ach Human Cannonball | 46.4% |
| 15 | Ach Board Needle | 44.1% |
| 16 | Ach Find Needle | 40.6% |
| 17 | Ach Basketball | 38.0% |
| 18 | Ach Max Machine | 33.4% |
| 19 | Ach Ride Out Storm | 31.4% |
| 20 | Ach Mr Tidy | 30.6% |
| 21 | Ach Tornado Ride | 26.5% |
| 22 | Ach Clear Haystack | 25.9% |
| 23 | Ach Revive Player | 25.3% |
| 24 | Ach Hard Win | 23.2% |
| 25 | Ach Needles 25 | 15.6% |
| 26 | Ach Contractor | 13.4% |
| 27 | Ach Needles 50 | 9.4% |
| 28 | Ach Needles 75 | 5.7% |
| 29 | Ach Sell Needle | 5.3% |
| 30 | Ach Fowl Play | 4.7% |
| 31 | Ach Multi Haystack Win | 3.8% |
| 32 | Ach Needles 100 | 2.9% |
| 33 | Ach Win Under 30 | 0.7% |
| 34 | Ach Impossible Win | 0.3% |
NewEndless haystack, a new mode: Free Play from the start, and the haystack never runs out. The hay you sell grows back on its top. Pick Endless on the new game's mode row.Colossal haystack. A fifth size, bigger than Massive: a 47 m heap of 30 million pieces of hay. Pick it for a new game, or order it with Reset Haystack in Free Play. It has its own leaderboards.Horses. Every farm has one, and more may wander in (never more than three). Feed one a carrot to tame it, then anyone can ride it.Oil. Pools of black oil lie near the edge of the map. Put an Oil pump on one and pipe the oil to a Sprinkler: machines in its spray work faster.Upgrades for every machine stat. 53 upgrades with 275 levels: haul, speed and reach for clutchers, robot arms, drones and robot vacuums; load and dig speed for shovels and pitchforks; value, speed and size for the bale press and the processing machines; belt...
Read full update on Steam ↗Fixes: - Proximity chat now reaches much further (40 m, up from 18 m) and is a bit louder, so you can hear friends across the farm. - The last bits of hay can now all be picked up, so you can clear the whole pile (this also unblocks Clean Sweep). - When a new haystack needs space, the warning now names the structures in the way and highlights them in red. - Big factories' Hay Collected scores are no longer rejected by the leaderboard. - After ordering a new haystack, other players see every item and keep their hotbar. - Tips no longer show for things you've already done. - Snakes are no longer attracted to carrots. - Cleared trees no longer leave invisible walls. - Hay no longer piles up in a spike on top of the heap. - Plane drops (and the pig plush) are now saved. Thank you for all your reports!
Read full update on Steam ↗v1.1.0: The Haystack UpdateThe beta is now part of the main game. NewA new haystack: the campaign is now one big heap of hay that caves in and slides as you dig. Every tool and machine works on it.Legacy mode: the old straw pile, unchanged. Your existing saves continue there.No more daily quota, and a day and night cycle (you can turn it off per save).Finishing the campaign keeps your haystack. Order a new haystack in any size from the reset button.New buildings: Floor, Bridge, Storage Silo, an extendable Belt Lift, a compost line, the Hay Mixer and the Hay Molder.Pickup filter for drones, robot arms and robot vacuums.Seven hotbar slots, a HUD scale setting, and a Clear finds button.ChangesEconomy rebalance: tools unlock sooner, automation is cheaper to start, and contracts never run out.Leaderboards: Hay Collected is one board per mode. Money has no $21M cap anymore.Much less multipl...
Read full update on Steam ↗Hey everyone, Over the last few days I have been reading every single piece of feedback received for the game, and I completely understand where it's coming from. That's why I am taking it all into account, today I am releasing a new BETA branch for the steam game. It is to address all the issues with the game and to allow you to play it before it is fully released. Here's what the BETA currently contains: - COMPLETELY REWORKED HAYSTACK PHYSICS - Economy and progression balancing - New water pipes, automation machines, new resources and upgrades to unlock - Optimization and performance fixes (more of this is coming soon too) - Day/Night cycle - Different game modes and options when creating your world, so you can play how you want. Please consider that the beta may have bugs, if you do run into any, please report them to me and I will have them fixed ASAP. Have fun! - Jahvin To switch...
Read full update on Steam ↗New - Single-player option when creating or loading a game. You can switch a save back to online when loading it. - The Reset Haystack button now appears in the campaign. It unlocks after you find a needle. Balance - Daily quotas grow slower in long sessions. - Robot Arm now costs $2,250. - Jetpack now costs $3,000. - Clutchers and Robot Arms reach farther at every level. - Drones and Robot Vacuums stay unlocked even if you recycle your Robot Arms or Clutchers. - Contracts now always show their full reward. After you complete a contract, new ones appear on the board after a short countdown. Machines - Fixed the Bale Press stacking hay into the sky or jamming. - Fixed small hay cubes jamming the Joiner. - The Conveyor Detector now holds nails until you pick them up. - Drones now wait on their own platform while looking for hay, instead of hovering over conveyors. Tools - The shovel and...
Read full update on Steam ↗Thank you all for playing and for the honest feedback. This update fixes the biggest problems you reported. FixesFixed players freezing in place when someone joins a game in progressFixed the needle sometimes never appearing near the end of a haystackFixed machines that could not be placed back after being picked upConveyor belts and machines now connect properly when placed next to each otherFixed hay getting stuck on ramp conveyors and falling through themFixed the Reset Haystack button sometimes doing nothingPlayers inside the haystack are now moved out safely when it resetsThe rubber duck in the claw machine can now actually be grabbed and dropped into the prize chuteThe end music now follows your music volume settingClearer error messages when joining a crew failsThe balloon no longer has a left click actionBalanceContracts give fairer rewards and scale with your progressEach con...
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941 concurrent players — the highest daily peak recorded at that point.