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Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure

ARVORE · Atari · 2023-06-15

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Jun 15, 2023 (PlayStation VR2), Jun 15, 2023 (SteamVR), Jun 15, 2023 (Meta Quest 2)

Game dev simulator! Now you can live it! Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure is a love letter to everything ATARI. Players are caught in a whacky time-traveling adventure as one of the main programmers at ATARI. Get INSIDE the gaming world to prevent history from being rewritten!

0
playing now
77%
positive of 61 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
3.96★
PlayStation Store rating (364 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.49
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Dot must join forces with "Bug," the quirky visionary who developed the original Pixel Ripped series. Help Dot maneuver through multidimensional challenges to protect Bug's childhood memories from the evil Cyblin Lord, a villain able to break through the screen and invade the real world. In the game. The setting? The intense burst of creativity that vibrated through the San Jose suburbs in the late 70s and early 80s. Feel the mighty effects of how the Pixel Stone alters reality itself!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 28,202 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.2k–2.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 61 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2026-07-13) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120232026Week of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 11:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$7.492023-06-152026-08-212023-06-15 — best price $24.992023-10-02 — best price $24.992023-11-28 — best price $24.992023-12-11 — best price $24.992024-01-04 — best price $24.992024-02-05 — best price $24.992024-03-21 — best price $24.992024-07-11 — best price $24.992024-07-29 — best price $24.992024-09-06 — best price $24.992024-10-28 — best price $24.992024-12-04 — best price $24.992025-01-02 — best price $24.992025-03-20 — best price $24.992025-03-30 — best price $24.992025-05-14 — best price $24.992025-07-10 — best price $24.992025-08-22 — best price $24.992025-09-28 — best price $24.992025-10-06 — best price $24.992025-12-03 — best price $24.992026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-01-28 — best price $24.992026-03-26 — best price $24.992026-04-11 — best price $24.992026-05-30 — best price $24.992026-07-09 — best price $24.992026-07-20 — best price $24.992026-08-21 — best price $7.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
78.1%
earned "Pixel Nickel"
17.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2D3DVRFunnyVoxelActionArcadeShooterControllerPlatformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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