The Game Census
Penkura cover art

Penkura

LionsArt · 2018-12-19

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 19, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.

91%
positive of 200 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$13.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 55% of 11,325 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.0k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 200 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.37 at Steam (2024-05-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $13.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320182026Week of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$13.99$9.372018-12-202026-07-092018-12-20 — best price $9.992022-12-15 — best price $13.992023-01-23 — best price $9.792023-01-30 — best price $13.992023-03-16 — best price $11.192023-03-23 — best price $13.992023-06-29 — best price $9.792023-07-13 — best price $13.992023-08-28 — best price $9.792023-09-04 — best price $13.992023-12-21 — best price $9.792024-01-04 — best price $13.992024-03-14 — best price $9.792024-03-21 — best price $13.992024-05-27 — best price $9.372024-06-03 — best price $13.992025-06-26 — best price $9.372025-07-10 — best price $13.992025-09-29 — best price $9.372025-10-06 — best price $13.992025-12-18 — best price $9.372026-01-05 — best price $13.992026-03-19 — best price $9.372026-03-26 — best price $13.992026-06-25 — best price $9.372026-07-09 — best price $13.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
3.3%
earned "Through The Void"
0.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsSave AnytimeStereo SoundPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)20%8

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

Player tags

RTSShooterCraftingLore-RichAction RPGAction RTSOpen WorldExplorationTime TravelEarly Access

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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