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PANICORE

ZTEK Studio · 2024-05-31

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 31, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.

385
playing now
79%
positive of 13k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
21,585
twitch viewers (latest)
63/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.69
steam price (US)

385 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 385 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,038 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~130/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 258k–581k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 12,918 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$6.69-33%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.79 at GreenManGaming (2025-10-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 23 of 28 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.7k1.7k20242026Week of 2024-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1,673 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 413 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 779 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 258 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 516 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 162 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 488 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 121 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 509 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 139 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,237 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 130 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 670 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 188 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 463 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 121 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 301 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 246 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 24 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

447342026-08-06 22:00 — 95 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 34 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 104 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 128 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 47 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 151 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 111 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 63 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 116 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 110 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 36 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 86 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 107 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 41 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 126 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 80 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 47 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 174 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 148 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 41 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 92 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 204 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 107 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 323 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 420 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 128 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 84 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 350 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 156 players2026-08-30 17:00 — 385 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.792024-05-312026-08-222024-05-31 — best price $3.732024-06-08 — best price $4.992024-07-14 — best price $4.992024-08-10 — best price $4.992024-08-18 — best price $4.992024-09-23 — best price $4.992024-10-08 — best price $4.992024-10-28 — best price $3.992024-11-04 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $3.992024-12-13 — best price $3.192025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-03-03 — best price $3.192025-03-14 — best price $4.992025-04-11 — best price $3.992025-05-09 — best price $3.192025-05-23 — best price $4.992025-06-26 — best price $3.192025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-07-25 — best price $3.102025-08-20 — best price $3.992025-09-29 — best price $3.992025-10-27 — best price $2.792025-11-04 — best price $4.992025-12-03 — best price $3.342025-12-12 — best price $2.792025-12-18 — best price $3.492026-01-10 — best price $4.992026-02-02 — best price $4.992026-03-16 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-03-31 — best price $9.992026-05-11 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-07-20 — best price $9.992026-08-22 — best price $6.69
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

22k02026-08-19 03:12 — 21,585 viewers2026-08-26 19:15 — 2 viewers2026-08-26 19:34 — 4 viewers2026-08-26 20:34 — 27 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 31 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 12 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 10 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 11 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 17 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 11 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 21 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 22 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 8 viewers2026-08-27 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 1 viewers2026-08-27 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-28 18:34 — 72 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 41 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 50 viewers2026-08-28 21:34 — 28 viewers2026-08-28 22:34 — 34 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 46 viewers2026-08-29 00:34 — 53 viewers2026-08-29 01:34 — 72 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 64 viewers2026-08-29 03:34 — 15 viewers2026-08-29 04:34 — 13 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 26 viewers2026-08-29 06:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 09:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
61.3%
earned "Carpenter"
3.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

26 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Indonesian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,0551%30

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

PvECo-opActionCasualHorrorStealthRogue-liteAtmosphericMultiplayerFirst-Person

Census log

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

Recent updates

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