The Game Census
Panoptic cover art

Panoptic

Team Panoptes · 2020-10-08

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person, Virtual Reality

Releases: Oct 08, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 16, 2019 (SteamVR)

Panoptic is a local multiplayer VR game that pits you against a friend, where you play as either the giant Overseer or tiny Challenger in a stealthy game of cat and mouse. Will the Challenger slip away undetected through the crowds, or will the Overseer track them down with their powerful laser eye?

96%
positive of 328 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$16.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (35 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 25,370 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.6k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 328 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$16.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.24 at Steam (2026-09-14) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $16.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days · $12.75 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
333320192026Week of 2019-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$16.99$4.242019-05-172026-10-082019-05-17 — best price $14.992019-11-25 — best price $14.992020-10-08 — best price $10.192020-12-22 — best price $12.742021-02-11 — best price $12.742021-06-24 — best price $12.742021-10-28 — best price $12.742021-11-24 — best price $12.742021-12-22 — best price $12.742022-02-28 — best price $11.892022-06-23 — best price $11.892022-07-18 — best price $11.892023-06-14 — best price $16.992023-11-28 — best price $16.992023-12-11 — best price $16.992024-01-04 — best price $16.992024-03-21 — best price $16.992024-07-11 — best price $16.992024-10-23 — best price $16.992024-12-04 — best price $16.992025-01-02 — best price $16.992025-02-17 — best price $16.992025-03-20 — best price $16.992026-01-05 — best price $16.992026-03-26 — best price $16.992026-09-21 — best price $16.992026-10-08 — best price $16.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
53.6%
earned "The cracks begin to show"
19.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyPartial Controller SupportRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, Dutch

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7210%35

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

Player tags

VRIndieActionCasualRunnerShooterStealthStylizedDystopian Party Game

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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