The Game Census
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Pierhead Arcade

Mechabit Ltd · 2016-09-21

SteamPlayStation Store

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Jan 30, 2018 (PlayStation VR), Sep 21, 2016 (SteamVR)

Play in your own virtual arcade with unlimited tokens.

87%
positive of 277 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 28% of 15,708 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.9k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 277 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.49 at Humble Store (2022-10-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 5 of 9 observed days · $2.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
242420162025Week of 2016-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$2.492016-04-052026-09-142016-04-05 — best price $8.992016-08-02 — best price $9.992016-11-01 — best price $9.992017-01-12 — best price $8.992017-05-25 — best price $9.992017-09-01 — best price $4.992017-11-01 — best price $9.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-04-20 — best price $4.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992019-01-10 — best price $4.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992019-11-21 — best price $3.992020-01-09 — best price $4.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-10-29 — best price $4.992020-11-28 — best price $4.992021-02-01 — best price $9.992021-08-20 — best price $4.992021-11-24 — best price $4.992022-01-14 — best price $4.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-10-24 — best price $2.492022-12-02 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-12-11 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $4.992024-12-12 — best price $9.992025-07-02 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-09-14 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
69.6%
earned "Dino Whack Bronze"
12.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam Trading Cards

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,0760%66
PS4, PS VR (PlayStation)6283%52

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

Player tags

VRIndieArcadeCasualSandboxSimulationEarly Access

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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