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Maniac

Transhuman Design · Skystone Games · 2024-03-28

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndieRacingRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player

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!

3
playing now
91%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 37k–84k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,869 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 39 of 46 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1302026-08-11 19:00 — 8 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 6 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 9 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 13 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 8 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 8 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 8 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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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