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POLYBIUS cover art

POLYBIUS

Llamasoft Ltd. · 2018-12-21

SteamPlayStation Store

Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

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.

POLYBIUS is a 2018 Action game priced at $6.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 256 reviews).

0
playing now
95%
positive of 257 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
4.71★
PlayStation Store rating (811 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.4k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 257 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
353520182026Week of 2018-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
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

59152026-06-01 — 26 pageviews2026-06-05 — 20 pageviews2026-06-09 — 28 pageviews2026-06-13 — 20 pageviews2026-06-17 — 35 pageviews2026-06-21 — 27 pageviews2026-06-25 — 22 pageviews2026-06-29 — 35 pageviews2026-07-03 — 30 pageviews2026-07-07 — 44 pageviews2026-07-11 — 27 pageviews2026-07-15 — 25 pageviews2026-07-19 — 28 pageviews2026-07-23 — 44 pageviews2026-07-27 — 31 pageviews2026-07-31 — 27 pageviews2026-08-04 — 32 pageviews2026-08-08 — 44 pageviews2026-08-12 — 33 pageviews2026-08-16 — 33 pageviews2026-08-20 — 24 pageviews2026-08-24 — 15 pageviews2026-08-28 — 23 pageviews2026-09-01 — 27 pageviews2026-09-05 — 37 pageviews2026-09-09 — 20 pageviews2026-09-13 — 28 pageviews2026-09-17 — 34 pageviews2026-09-21 — 35 pageviews2026-09-25 — 35 pageviews2026-09-29 — 32 pageviews2026-10-03 — 25 pageviews2026-10-07 — 26 pageviews2026-10-10 — 28 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
74.6%
earned "FURst Step"
2.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)1,1151%22
Steam (Steam)4240%22

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

Player tags

VRRetroActionArcadePsychedelic

Census log

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

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