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PixelJunk™ Shooter cover art

PixelJunk™ Shooter

Double Eleven · 2013-11-11

Steam

Action

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

Releases: Mar 01, 2011 (PlayStation 3)

In PixelJunk™ Shooter, you must pilot your spacecraft through a range of cavernous environments in a bid to save the scientists trapped underground. Making your way through the game will rely on your keen sense of observation and the ability to manipulate your surroundings.

PixelJunk™ Shooter is an Action game released in 2013, priced at $0.98, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 626 reviews).

0
playing now
90%
positive of 627 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.98
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

PixelJunk Shooter is a shooter video game developed and published by Q-Games for the PlayStation 3. It is the fourth game in the PixelJunk series. It was released on the PlayStation Store by Sony Computer Entertainment in December 2009, and for Windows on November 11, 2013. A remastered version of the game, PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate, was released by Double Eleven for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in June 2014, and for Microsoft Windows on October 21, 2015.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 28,023 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 25k–50k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 627 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.71 at Fanatical (2021-11-22) · bundled 12×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 20 of 31 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162026Week of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
291Nov 2013May 2023Nov 2013 — avg 15 · peak 61Feb 2014 — avg 17 · peak 84May 2014 — avg 6 · peak 33Aug 2014 — avg 20 · peak 93Nov 2014 — avg 5 · peak 21Feb 2015 — avg 5 · peak 16May 2015 — avg 4 · peak 28Aug 2015 — avg 5 · peak 19Nov 2015 — avg 4 · peak 22Feb 2016 — avg 5 · peak 15May 2016 — avg 3 · peak 10Aug 2016 — avg 4 · peak 16Nov 2016 — avg 2 · peak 12Feb 2017 — avg 2 · peak 9May 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2017 — avg 3 · peak 9Nov 2017 — avg 3 · peak 23Feb 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7May 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2018 — avg 2 · peak 9Nov 2018 — avg 2 · peak 8Feb 2019 — avg 1 · peak 8May 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Feb 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2020 — avg 1 · peak 7Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Dec 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2022 — avg 1 · peak 6May 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$8.99$0.712015-01-012026-09-092015-01-01 — best price $0.902015-02-13 — best price $0.952015-05-12 — best price $4.952015-06-18 — best price $0.892015-08-17 — best price $4.952015-10-12 — best price $8.992015-12-05 — best price $0.892016-01-05 — best price $8.992016-07-24 — best price $0.892016-12-16 — best price $0.902017-06-22 — best price $0.892018-01-04 — best price $8.992018-08-30 — best price $1.342019-01-01 — best price $8.992019-06-18 — best price $8.992020-03-06 — best price $8.992020-05-29 — best price $6.602020-07-13 — best price $8.992020-08-04 — best price $7.992020-08-27 — best price $1.342020-10-01 — best price $7.992020-10-24 — best price $8.992020-11-15 — best price $8.992020-12-09 — best price $7.992021-01-13 — best price $7.992021-02-05 — best price $8.992021-03-05 — best price $7.992021-03-28 — best price $8.992021-04-26 — best price $7.992021-05-19 — best price $8.992021-06-14 — best price $8.992021-11-03 — best price $8.992022-02-23 — best price $0.892022-06-06 — best price $0.892024-03-14 — best price $1.792024-08-01 — best price $7.992025-07-10 — best price $8.992026-06-25 — best price $0.982026-09-06 — best price $0.982026-09-09 — best price $0.98
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4292026-06-01 — 24 pageviews2026-06-05 — 17 pageviews2026-06-09 — 14 pageviews2026-06-13 — 32 pageviews2026-06-17 — 20 pageviews2026-06-21 — 19 pageviews2026-06-25 — 16 pageviews2026-06-29 — 17 pageviews2026-07-03 — 19 pageviews2026-07-07 — 18 pageviews2026-07-11 — 33 pageviews2026-07-15 — 21 pageviews2026-07-19 — 28 pageviews2026-07-23 — 14 pageviews2026-07-27 — 10 pageviews2026-07-31 — 34 pageviews2026-08-04 — 11 pageviews2026-08-08 — 19 pageviews2026-08-12 — 15 pageviews2026-08-16 — 18 pageviews2026-08-20 — 16 pageviews2026-08-24 — 20 pageviews2026-08-28 — 32 pageviews2026-09-01 — 17 pageviews2026-09-05 — 15 pageviews2026-09-09 — 15 pageviews2026-09-13 — 18 pageviews2026-09-17 — 11 pageviews2026-09-21 — 12 pageviews2026-09-25 — 17 pageviews2026-09-29 — 16 pageviews2026-10-03 — 24 pageviews2026-10-07 — 14 pageviews2026-10-10 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
33.4%
earned "Sharp Shooter"
4.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on Tablet

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

Player tags

2DCo-opIndieActionCasualPuzzleSci-fiPhysicsShooterController

Census log

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

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