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PARTICLE MACE cover art

PARTICLE MACE

Andy Makes · 2015-01-22

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 20, 2016 (Mac), May 20, 2016 (iOS), Jan 23, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A space game about swinging trash into things and dying.

0
playing now
88%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Particle Mace is a 2D space combat game that was released on January 22, 2015, for Windows and Mac OS X, and January 28, 2015, for iOS.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 34k–82k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,369 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.19 at Steam (2015-10-12) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

102026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$20.00$0.192015-01-012023-07-072015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-01-28 — best price $8.992015-02-03 — best price $8.992015-06-11 — best price $2.242015-07-11 — best price $8.992015-08-10 — best price $4.992015-09-26 — best price $9.992015-10-29 — best price $0.192015-12-01 — best price $9.992015-12-22 — best price $0.492016-01-29 — best price $20.002016-02-15 — best price $0.992016-05-02 — best price $9.992016-05-21 — best price $3.992016-07-19 — best price $9.992016-09-19 — best price $9.992016-10-10 — best price $9.992016-10-28 — best price $0.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $0.992017-01-10 — best price $9.992017-03-30 — best price $0.992017-04-10 — best price $9.992017-06-22 — best price $0.992017-09-28 — best price $9.992017-11-01 — best price $4.992017-12-21 — best price $0.492018-02-19 — best price $4.992018-04-30 — best price $9.992018-09-13 — best price $0.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-12-20 — best price $0.992019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-05-18 — best price $4.992019-08-05 — best price $4.992019-11-26 — best price $0.492020-01-16 — best price $4.992023-06-27 — best price $5.002023-07-07 — best price $5.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

702026-05-30 — 0 pageviews2026-06-02 — 0 pageviews2026-06-05 — 2 pageviews2026-06-08 — 0 pageviews2026-06-11 — 0 pageviews2026-06-14 — 0 pageviews2026-06-17 — 1 pageviews2026-06-20 — 3 pageviews2026-06-23 — 0 pageviews2026-06-26 — 3 pageviews2026-06-29 — 2 pageviews2026-07-02 — 1 pageviews2026-07-05 — 0 pageviews2026-07-09 — 1 pageviews2026-07-13 — 0 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1 pageviews2026-07-19 — 0 pageviews2026-07-22 — 0 pageviews2026-07-25 — 1 pageviews2026-07-28 — 0 pageviews2026-07-31 — 4 pageviews2026-08-03 — 7 pageviews2026-08-06 — 0 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-12 — 1 pageviews2026-08-15 — 3 pageviews2026-08-18 — 2 pageviews2026-08-21 — 0 pageviews2026-08-24 — 1 pageviews2026-08-27 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
8.7%
earned "Killed By The Snitch"
3.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading Cards1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,0395%21

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

Player tags

2DIndieRetroSpaceActionArcadeCasualAdventureLocal Co-OpMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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