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Maniac

Transhuman Design · Skystone Games · 2024-03-28

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ActionIndieRacingRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 28, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 22, 2025 (PlayStation 5), May 22, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), May 22, 2025 (Xbox One), May 22, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)

Ever just tired of it all? Ready for change? Wanna bet it all on sheer mayhem and destruction? In comes Maniac, a rogue-lite crime action game in which the world goes against you, and your insanity creates chaos!

Maniac is an Action, Indie, Racing, RPG game released in 2024, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 1875 reviews).

3
playing now
91%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
3
Nexus mods (128 downloads)
4.12★
PlayStation Store rating (232 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 194 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~24/week).
  • · Review velocity down 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 38k–84k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,875 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.24 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 38 of 44 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
33733720242026Week of 2024-03-01: 322 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 337 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1912026-09-15 16:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 7 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 6 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 16 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 14 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 12 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 11 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 5 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 4 players2026-10-15 06:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1065Apr 2024Aug 2026Apr 2024 — avg 106 · peak 439May 2024 — avg 28 · peak 68Jun 2024 — avg 21 · peak 92Jul 2024 — avg 55 · peak 276Aug 2024 — avg 20 · peak 54Sep 2024 — avg 13 · peak 32Oct 2024 — avg 9 · peak 22Nov 2024 — avg 22 · peak 104Dec 2024 — avg 18 · peak 44Jan 2025 — avg 15 · peak 36Feb 2025 — avg 8 · peak 20Mar 2025 — avg 10 · peak 30Apr 2025 — avg 12 · peak 41May 2025 — avg 11 · peak 239Jun 2025 — avg 45 · peak 424Jul 2025 — avg 18 · peak 45Aug 2025 — avg 7 · peak 17Sep 2025 — avg 5 · peak 15Oct 2025 — avg 6 · peak 20Nov 2025 — avg 14 · peak 40Dec 2025 — avg 9 · peak 31Jan 2026 — avg 11 · peak 32Feb 2026 — avg 13 · peak 32Mar 2026 — avg 8 · peak 27Apr 2026 — avg 6 · peak 17May 2026 — avg 24 · peak 74Jun 2026 — avg 10 · peak 39Jul 2026 — avg 13 · peak 33Aug 2026 — avg 6 · peak 22
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.002021-03-272026-07-242021-03-27 — best price $0.002024-05-13 — best price $4.242024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-07-25 — best price $4.992024-11-16 — best price $3.662024-11-27 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992024-12-13 — best price $3.242025-01-05 — best price $3.662025-01-20 — best price $3.492025-03-03 — best price $2.742025-03-21 — best price $4.142025-06-07 — best price $4.992025-06-28 — best price $3.662025-08-15 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-11-21 — best price $1.742025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-01-19 — best price $2.122026-02-14 — best price $4.992026-04-13 — best price $4.992026-05-12 — best price $1.492026-05-25 — best price $3.662026-05-29 — best price $3.722026-06-07 — best price $3.732026-06-16 — best price $4.142026-06-20 — best price $3.732026-07-02 — best price $3.732026-07-10 — best price $3.732026-07-17 — best price $4.142026-07-24 — best price $4.14
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
65.4%
earned "Chain Explosion"
9.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

17 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,9471%65
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)3311%56
PS5 (PlayStation)29211%57
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DActionArcadeSandboxTop-DownDark HumorOpen WorldRogue-likeSimulationBullet Hell

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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