The Game Census
PixelJunk™ Monsters Ultimate cover art

PixelJunk™ Monsters Ultimate

Double Eleven · 2013-08-26

SteamGOG

Strategy

Franchise: PixelJunk · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Aug 26, 2013 (Mac), Aug 26, 2013 (Linux), Aug 26, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Tikiman the Forest Defender is in trouble. Hordes of monsters are sweeping through his realm, hoping to chow down on his offspring – and it’s up to you to defend them. By placing weapon towers at strategic points around the landscape, you can destroy the invaders and save the little ones.

21
playing now
81%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.09
steam price (US)

21 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

PixelJunk Monsters is a tower defense video game developed by Q-Games for the PlayStation 3. The second game in the PixelJunk series, it was originally released in Japan on December 6, 2007 and worldwide by Sony Computer Entertainment on the PlayStation Store on January 24, 2008. The game was released for the PlayStation Portable under the title PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 27% of 5,944 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 52k–105k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,312 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$1.09-89%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.09-89%
GOG$7.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Gamesrocket (2015-12-25) · bundled 12×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 8 of 17 observed days · $0.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2442026-08-06 23:00 — 14 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 17 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 14 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 21 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 15 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 10 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 10 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 13 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 12 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 18 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 15 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 9 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 22 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 21 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.942015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.002015-02-06 — best price $4.952015-03-24 — best price $8.492015-05-08 — best price $2.492015-06-23 — best price $9.992015-09-08 — best price $0.992015-11-23 — best price $9.992015-12-27 — best price $8.492016-07-26 — best price $9.572016-12-22 — best price $1.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992018-01-11 — best price $1.492018-09-13 — best price $9.992019-01-04 — best price $9.992019-11-26 — best price $1.992020-04-28 — best price $9.992020-06-10 — best price $8.892020-07-14 — best price $8.892020-08-06 — best price $9.992020-08-28 — best price $9.992020-10-03 — best price $9.992020-11-23 — best price $9.992020-12-20 — best price $9.992021-01-21 — best price $8.892021-02-12 — best price $7.162021-03-11 — best price $8.892021-04-10 — best price $9.992021-05-02 — best price $8.892021-05-25 — best price $9.992021-07-09 — best price $8.892021-12-11 — best price $9.992022-05-26 — best price $8.892024-03-04 — best price $1.492025-01-12 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $1.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

52
achievements tracked
39.1%
earned "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"
3.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam Leaderboards

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

Player tags

2DCo-opIndieStrategyControllerLocal Co-OpMultiplayerOnline Co-OpSingleplayerTower Defense

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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