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Pistol Whip cover art

Pistol Whip

Cloudhead Games Ltd. · 2019-11-07

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndieSports

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Nov 07, 2019 (Oculus Quest), Nov 07, 2019 (Oculus Rift), Jul 28, 2020 (PlayStation VR), Nov 07, 2019 (Oculus VR), Feb 22, 2023 (PlayStation VR2), Nov 07, 2019 (SteamVR)

Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards. Includes mod support!

Pistol Whip is a 2019 Action, Indie, and Sports game priced at $29.99, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (94% of 4112 reviews).

6
playing now
94%
positive of 4.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
87/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (23 ratings)
5
Nexus mods (1.3k downloads)
4.64★
PlayStation Store rating (2,741 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$29.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Pistol Whip is a 2019 virtual reality video game developed and published by Cloudhead Games. The game is a stage based shooter where the player automatically moves through the level and has to defeat enemies to the music. The game was released for Oculus Quest and Microsoft Windows on November 7, 2019. A PlayStation 4 port released in July 2020. Since February 2023, it is also supported on the PlayStation 5.

Trailer

Pistol Whip trailer thumbnail

Pistol Whip - VR Launch Trailer | Oculus Quest, PC VR

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 57 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (541 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 103k–247k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,112 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 5 of 11 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
50050020192026Week of 2019-11-01: 500 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2422026-09-15 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 4 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 9 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 18 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 6 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 15 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 13 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 10 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 15 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 13 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 15 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 18 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 11 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 9 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 13 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 13 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 8 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
745Nov 2019Aug 2026Nov 2019 — avg 74 · peak 194Feb 2020 — avg 45 · peak 111May 2020 — avg 30 · peak 63Aug 2020 — avg 35 · peak 82Nov 2020 — avg 33 · peak 94Feb 2021 — avg 42 · peak 117May 2021 — avg 32 · peak 69Aug 2021 — avg 45 · peak 135Nov 2021 — avg 37 · peak 88Feb 2022 — avg 33 · peak 97May 2022 — avg 34 · peak 81Aug 2022 — avg 24 · peak 55Nov 2022 — avg 21 · peak 59Feb 2023 — avg 22 · peak 50May 2023 — avg 21 · peak 46Aug 2023 — avg 20 · peak 41Nov 2023 — avg 29 · peak 116Feb 2024 — avg 17 · peak 40May 2024 — avg 14 · peak 35Aug 2024 — avg 14 · peak 33Nov 2024 — avg 16 · peak 61Feb 2025 — avg 13 · peak 37May 2025 — avg 9 · peak 24Aug 2025 — avg 8 · peak 20Nov 2025 — avg 9 · peak 25Feb 2026 — avg 7 · peak 20May 2026 — avg 6 · peak 23Aug 2026 — avg 5 · peak 14
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$29.99$0.002019-11-072026-07-092019-11-07 — best price $24.992020-12-01 — best price $24.992021-02-11 — best price $19.992021-04-05 — best price $24.992021-08-16 — best price $29.992021-11-07 — best price $19.492021-11-19 — best price $20.992021-12-04 — best price $29.992022-01-07 — best price $19.492022-02-03 — best price $29.992022-06-23 — best price $19.492022-07-25 — best price $29.992022-09-22 — best price $20.992022-11-18 — best price $19.492022-12-02 — best price $29.992023-01-20 — best price $20.992023-03-17 — best price $20.992023-05-05 — best price $20.992023-07-13 — best price $29.992023-08-18 — best price $20.992023-09-05 — best price $29.992023-11-03 — best price $17.992023-12-08 — best price $20.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-04-15 — best price $19.492024-05-02 — best price $29.992024-07-04 — best price $29.992024-08-26 — best price $29.992024-11-27 — best price $17.992024-12-12 — best price $29.992025-01-23 — best price $19.492025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-06-26 — best price $17.992025-09-23 — best price $29.992025-11-20 — best price $16.492025-12-04 — best price $29.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-06-25 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3242026-05-17 — 12 pageviews2026-05-21 — 9 pageviews2026-05-25 — 10 pageviews2026-05-29 — 14 pageviews2026-06-02 — 21 pageviews2026-06-06 — 12 pageviews2026-06-10 — 13 pageviews2026-06-14 — 7 pageviews2026-06-18 — 12 pageviews2026-06-22 — 17 pageviews2026-06-26 — 10 pageviews2026-06-30 — 14 pageviews2026-07-04 — 17 pageviews2026-07-08 — 18 pageviews2026-07-12 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 9 pageviews2026-07-20 — 13 pageviews2026-07-24 — 14 pageviews2026-07-28 — 14 pageviews2026-08-01 — 9 pageviews2026-08-05 — 11 pageviews2026-08-09 — 17 pageviews2026-08-13 — 7 pageviews2026-08-17 — 8 pageviews2026-08-21 — 14 pageviews2026-08-25 — 6 pageviews2026-08-29 — 18 pageviews2026-09-02 — 11 pageviews2026-09-06 — 7 pageviews2026-09-10 — 15 pageviews2026-09-14 — 32 pageviews2026-09-18 — 15 pageviews2026-09-22 — 13 pageviews2026-09-26 — 9 pageviews2026-09-30 — 8 pageviews2026-10-04 — 7 pageviews2026-10-08 — 11 pageviews2026-10-12 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
73.1%
earned "Baby Driver"
23.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2019-11-07, latest 2021-04-29 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9,7443%25
PS5, PS VR2 (PlayStation)4,45411%25
PS4, PS VR (PlayStation)1,64213%25

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

VRFPSMusicActionArcadeRhythmShooterAssassinSoundtrackBullet Hell

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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