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POLYBIUS

Llamasoft Ltd. · 2018-12-21

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Modes: Single player

Releases: May 09, 2017 (PlayStation 4), May 09, 2017 (PlayStation VR), Dec 21, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

POLYBIUS is a fast, trippy tunnel shooter playable on a normal screen or in VR. 50 levels of blissful trance shooting action are set to a blistering soundtrack. The PS4 version was EDGE Magazine's VR GOTY in 2017, and the PC version of the game was even used as the basis for a NIN music video.

0
playing now
95%
positive of 256 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Polybius is a 2017 shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Llamasoft. It was released in May 2017 for the PlayStation 4, with PlayStation VR support available. A version for Windows was released in December 2018. The game takes its name and inspiration from the fictitious 1981 arcade game and urban legend of the same name. It is also inspired by games like TxK and aims to induce the psychological state of flow. It was positively received by critics.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 55% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.4k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 256 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.09 at Steam (2021-10-28) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$17.99$2.092018-12-222022-01-052018-12-22 — best price $17.992019-12-23 — best price $6.992020-12-21 — best price $6.992021-10-28 — best price $2.092021-11-01 — best price $6.992021-11-24 — best price $2.092021-12-01 — best price $6.992021-12-22 — best price $2.092022-01-05 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

VRRetroActionArcadePsychedelic

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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