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Pester cover art

Pester

Flump Studios · Funbox Media Ltd · 2015-08-21

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 26, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A blast from Flump Studios past! Pester was released on Xbox live indies back in early 2013 and was Flump Studios first game developed for public release. A remake of one of my early C64 games, Pester is a very fast paced and busy retro vertical shooter.

Pester is an Indie game released in 2015, priced at $0.79, with an estimated owner base of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (54% of 121 reviews).

0
playing now
54%
positive of 121 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.79
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 50,052 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.0k–7.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 121 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.19 at Nuuvem (2019-09-04) · bundled 18×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 11 of 26 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220152026Week of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4502026-09-15 17:00 — 45 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-15 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.00$0.192015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-12-22 — best price $0.422016-03-14 — best price $0.992016-07-05 — best price $0.992016-10-18 — best price $2.572016-12-20 — best price $0.492017-03-13 — best price $0.502017-06-22 — best price $0.492017-11-01 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $0.992018-06-21 — best price $0.492018-10-30 — best price $0.842019-01-03 — best price $0.992019-04-11 — best price $0.492019-08-13 — best price $99.002019-11-08 — best price $0.492019-12-16 — best price $0.392020-03-16 — best price $0.492020-10-29 — best price $0.492021-01-05 — best price $0.992021-03-12 — best price $0.272021-08-27 — best price $0.892022-02-03 — best price $0.992022-05-10 — best price $0.992022-07-11 — best price $0.512022-09-22 — best price $0.382022-12-19 — best price $0.992023-02-28 — best price $0.992023-05-15 — best price $0.992023-08-02 — best price $0.992024-07-26 — best price $0.202024-10-08 — best price $0.592024-12-05 — best price $0.992025-02-24 — best price $0.992025-04-08 — best price $0.992025-07-11 — best price $0.992025-10-01 — best price $0.252026-01-06 — best price $0.992026-03-30 — best price $0.792026-08-24 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieBullet HellShoot 'Em Up

Census log

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

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