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PARKAN: THE IMPERIAL CHRONICLES cover art

PARKAN: THE IMPERIAL CHRONICLES

GameXP.com · 2017-01-23

SteamGOG

AdventureRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jan 23, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Legendary game from the Golden age of Russian gaming industry! Hybrid gameplay combines elements of space simulator, shooter, strategy and RPG. Explore the outer space, colonize planets, negotiate with clans of robots, fight in space battles and become mercenary, trader or pirate!

PARKAN: THE IMPERIAL CHRONICLES is an Adventure, RPG, Simulation and Strategy game released in 2017, priced at $2.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (85% of 62 reviews).

0
playing now
87%
positive of 62 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Parkan: The Imperial Chronicles is a space simulation computer game developed by Russian company Nikita and released in September 1997 for Windows. The game is a hybrid title that combines elements of space simulation, first-person shooter, and economic strategy genres. Set in the year 4097 in the Lentis sector, the player controls the pilot of an Imperial raider called "Parkan," sent on a mission to search for the missing research vessel "Wanderer."

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 29,025 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 62 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.79-40%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at WinGameStore (2024-05-30) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 57 of 81 observed days · $1.05 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320172026Week of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
10Jan 2017Aug 2024Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Feb 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Jul 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2020 — avg 0 · peak 4Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 2Aug 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Aug 2024

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$5.99$0.742016-06-292026-10-152016-06-29 — best price $5.992017-07-05 — best price $2.992018-01-12 — best price $0.992018-11-15 — best price $1.992019-02-12 — best price $2.992019-09-12 — best price $2.992020-01-02 — best price $2.992020-06-25 — best price $2.092020-12-22 — best price $2.092021-06-24 — best price $1.492021-11-19 — best price $1.492022-01-27 — best price $1.392022-05-06 — best price $1.492022-08-22 — best price $2.992022-11-22 — best price $1.492023-02-07 — best price $2.992023-08-08 — best price $2.992024-03-20 — best price $1.492024-06-11 — best price $1.492024-10-10 — best price $1.492025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-04-06 — best price $1.492025-06-18 — best price $1.792025-09-23 — best price $2.992025-11-17 — best price $1.792026-03-19 — best price $1.792026-06-04 — best price $1.792026-08-25 — best price $1.792026-09-08 — best price $1.792026-09-18 — best price $1.792026-09-28 — best price $1.792026-10-08 — best price $2.992026-10-15 — best price $1.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2312026-06-02 — 7 pageviews2026-06-06 — 4 pageviews2026-06-10 — 7 pageviews2026-06-14 — 5 pageviews2026-06-18 — 8 pageviews2026-06-22 — 4 pageviews2026-06-26 — 3 pageviews2026-06-30 — 1 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-08 — 3 pageviews2026-07-12 — 7 pageviews2026-07-16 — 4 pageviews2026-07-20 — 7 pageviews2026-07-24 — 9 pageviews2026-07-28 — 7 pageviews2026-08-01 — 1 pageviews2026-08-05 — 5 pageviews2026-08-09 — 3 pageviews2026-08-13 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 8 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-29 — 3 pageviews2026-09-02 — 11 pageviews2026-09-06 — 7 pageviews2026-09-10 — 3 pageviews2026-09-14 — 8 pageviews2026-09-18 — 8 pageviews2026-09-22 — 4 pageviews2026-09-26 — 4 pageviews2026-09-30 — 6 pageviews2026-10-04 — 4 pageviews2026-10-08 — 4 pageviews2026-10-12 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DFPSRPGCRPGSpaceActionStrategyAdventureSpace SimAction RPG

Census log

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

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