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Phantaruk

Polyslash · Ultimate Games S.A. · 2016-08-16

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Aug 30, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 16, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Phantaruk combines survival horror with adventure and stealth mechanics. Expect true shivers down your spine as you fight for your life not only facing the dangers of the Purity-02 spaceship, but most of all - when you try to get rid of toxins continually destroying you from the inside.

Phantaruk is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $4.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (61% of 242 reviews).

0
playing now
61%
positive of 242 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (7 downloads)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

For long has the humanity been constrained by limits of human body. Most have accepted the imperfection of flesh, but some sought for liberation. To pursue the dream of creating a post-human being – to achieve ideas of transhumanism – is the driving force behind H+ Corporation. Within its facilities technology and homo sapiens became one entity. An organism devoid of humanity’s biological weaknesses. You board the spaceship Purity-02 – prime complex of the H+ Corporation. The dream shatters to a nightmare when you realize what has become of Purity-02. Once a research vessel, it has turned in(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 27,661 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.0k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 242 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$0.79-84%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.34 at GamersGate (2021-12-26) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 60 of 71 observed days · $0.45 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220162026Week of 2016-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.99$0.342016-08-162026-10-142016-08-16 — best price $8.992016-11-07 — best price $7.192017-01-26 — best price $11.992017-05-15 — best price $11.992017-11-01 — best price $4.992018-04-20 — best price $11.992018-10-18 — best price $10.072019-01-14 — best price $0.742019-05-31 — best price $4.992019-09-12 — best price $11.992019-11-24 — best price $4.992020-01-18 — best price $4.992020-04-27 — best price $3.662020-08-10 — best price $0.492020-11-01 — best price $0.372021-02-15 — best price $4.992021-05-07 — best price $0.372021-07-10 — best price $0.492021-10-11 — best price $3.402022-01-10 — best price $0.372022-06-06 — best price $0.402022-10-14 — best price $11.992023-02-27 — best price $0.492023-09-01 — best price $1.192023-12-18 — best price $1.192024-04-22 — best price $4.992024-07-12 — best price $4.082024-09-23 — best price $0.692025-02-03 — best price $4.082025-08-20 — best price $0.492026-03-19 — best price $0.692026-06-01 — best price $1.482026-08-14 — best price $0.792026-09-16 — best price $0.392026-10-14 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
28.4%
earned "No looking back"
4.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Polish, German

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-09-08 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4905%23
Switch (Nintendo)70%0

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

Player tags

IndieActionHorrorStealthAdventureRealisticAtmosphericFirst-PersonSingleplayerSurvival Horror

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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