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Paranormal

Matt Cohen · 2013-09-12

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 19, 2012 (Mac), Oct 19, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Experience the horrors of a haunting that's never the same twice. Paranormal is a 3D fully dynamic haunting experience. The player takes the role of Mattel Clarke, an artist who has a haunted house. Mattel decides to film the hauntings with his camera, which is the viewpoint of the game.

0
playing now
56%
positive of 527 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 44% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 21k–42k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 527 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Desura (2013-05-01) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$7.492015-01-012023-03-232015-01-01 — best price $7.492015-06-11 — best price $8.492015-10-29 — best price $7.992015-11-25 — best price $8.992015-12-22 — best price $7.492016-02-05 — best price $8.492016-06-23 — best price $8.492016-10-28 — best price $8.992016-11-23 — best price $8.492016-12-22 — best price $8.492017-06-22 — best price $7.492017-10-26 — best price $7.992017-11-22 — best price $8.992017-12-21 — best price $8.492018-06-22 — best price $7.492018-10-30 — best price $8.492018-11-21 — best price $8.492018-12-21 — best price $8.492019-02-04 — best price $7.492019-06-25 — best price $7.492019-10-28 — best price $7.492020-06-25 — best price $7.492020-12-22 — best price $8.492021-06-24 — best price $8.492021-10-28 — best price $7.992021-11-24 — best price $8.992021-12-22 — best price $8.492022-01-27 — best price $8.492022-06-23 — best price $7.992022-10-25 — best price $7.992022-11-22 — best price $8.492022-12-22 — best price $7.992023-03-16 — best price $7.992023-03-23 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)0—1

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

Player tags

IndieActionHorrorAdventureSimulationEarly AccessFirst-Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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