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Paradigm Shift

Stake deep interactive · Ghost in the cartridge · 2014-05-19

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 19, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Paradigm Shift You awake from a terrifying nightmare to discover that your home city of River Lake has been devastated by an explosion at a neuroscience laboratory.

Paradigm Shift is a $0.99 Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2014, with an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000 and Very Negative (16% of 58 reviews) sentiment.

16%
positive of 58 reviews
Very Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 51% of 29,640 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 58 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2015-12-29) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520142025Week of 2014-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$1.99$0.492015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $1.492015-01-20 — best price $1.992015-07-09 — best price $1.192015-10-14 — best price $1.992016-03-09 — best price $0.792016-06-06 — best price $1.992016-08-30 — best price $0.692016-11-01 — best price $1.992016-12-22 — best price $0.592017-02-13 — best price $1.992017-06-22 — best price $0.692017-10-02 — best price $1.992017-11-22 — best price $0.492018-01-04 — best price $1.992018-02-15 — best price $0.492018-07-05 — best price $1.992018-10-01 — best price $0.492018-11-01 — best price $1.992018-12-20 — best price $0.652019-03-18 — best price $1.992019-11-25 — best price $0.992020-06-25 — best price $0.492020-09-07 — best price $0.992020-11-25 — best price $0.492020-12-14 — best price $0.992021-02-02 — best price $0.592021-04-26 — best price $0.992026-06-25 — best price $0.792026-07-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieCasualHorrorZombiesAdventurePoint & Click

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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