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Photonic Distress cover art

Photonic Distress

GRIP420 · 2018-08-03

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 03, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Photonic Distress (or PD for short) is a blend of First/Third Person puzzler/platformer with a unique twist. Navigate your way through randomly generated levels, lighting your way up, fighting enemies, sliding and collecting Memory Fragments to wake up!

93%
positive of 58 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 16,269 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 58 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2019-01-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620182026Week of 2018-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.14$1.992018-08-032025-07-102018-08-03 — best price $12.142018-09-04 — best price $9.712018-09-18 — best price $12.142018-10-25 — best price $9.992018-10-30 — best price $3.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-11-21 — best price $3.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992018-12-20 — best price $3.992019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-01-18 — best price $1.992019-02-01 — best price $9.992019-02-04 — best price $1.992019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-03-20 — best price $4.992019-04-22 — best price $1.992019-04-30 — best price $4.992019-10-28 — best price $3.492019-11-01 — best price $4.992019-11-03 — best price $6.992020-03-17 — best price $3.492020-03-31 — best price $6.992020-06-25 — best price $3.492020-07-09 — best price $6.992020-12-23 — best price $9.992024-05-13 — best price $6.692024-05-20 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $6.692024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-12-20 — best price $6.692025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $6.692025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $6.692025-07-10 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieActionCasualRelaxingAdventureBeautifulExperimentalFirst-PersonThird-Person ShooterProcedural Generation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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