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PANICORE

ZTEK Studio · 2024-05-31

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

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.

PANICORE is an Action, Adventure, Indie game released in 2024, priced at $6.69, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and a Mostly Positive (79% of 12998 reviews) sentiment.

52
playing now
79%
positive of 13k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
21,585
twitch viewers (latest)
7195.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
63/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
4
Nexus mods (170 downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.69
steam price (US)

52 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

PANICORE trailer thumbnail

PANICORE | Official Trailer

≈72,728 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 52 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 4% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 260k–585k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 12,998 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 21 of 26 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

244332026-09-15 12:00 — 71 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 138 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 46 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 81 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 177 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 68 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 37 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 144 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 73 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 54 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 141 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 59 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 33 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 122 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 190 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 65 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 116 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 88 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 60 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 136 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 154 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 34 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 52 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.3k100Jun 2024Aug 2026Jun 2024 — avg 1,335 · peak 3,491Jul 2024 — avg 774 · peak 2,017Aug 2024 — avg 622 · peak 1,748Sep 2024 — avg 580 · peak 1,503Oct 2024 — avg 591 · peak 1,796Nov 2024 — avg 553 · peak 1,742Dec 2024 — avg 588 · peak 1,747Jan 2025 — avg 575 · peak 1,625Feb 2025 — avg 417 · peak 971Mar 2025 — avg 273 · peak 810Apr 2025 — avg 174 · peak 499May 2025 — avg 188 · peak 476Jun 2025 — avg 166 · peak 407Jul 2025 — avg 190 · peak 459Aug 2025 — avg 186 · peak 558Sep 2025 — avg 175 · peak 441Oct 2025 — avg 259 · peak 882Nov 2025 — avg 184 · peak 598Dec 2025 — avg 244 · peak 708Jan 2026 — avg 165 · peak 431Feb 2026 — avg 134 · peak 374Mar 2026 — avg 139 · peak 411Apr 2026 — avg 100 · peak 277May 2026 — avg 124 · peak 370Jun 2026 — avg 102 · peak 255Jul 2026 — avg 108 · peak 288Aug 2026 — avg 135 · peak 626
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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).

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…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-06-03 (Steam store data)

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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