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PONCHO cover art

PONCHO

Delve Interactive · Rising Star Games · 2015-11-03

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 03, 2015 (Linux), Aug 19, 2016 (Wii U), Nov 03, 2015 (PlayStation 4), Nov 03, 2015 (Mac), Nov 03, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 03, 2015 (PlayStation Vita)

A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?

PONCHO is a 2015 Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game priced at $5.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (64% of 199 reviews).

0
playing now
64%
positive of 199 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$5.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Poncho is an action game developed by Delve Interactive, released for Windows, OS X, and PlayStation 4 on November 3, 2015, and Wii U on August 18, 2016. A version for the PlayStation Vita was announced, but was cancelled.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 27,664 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 5.0k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 199 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2019-12-19) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 7 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020152026Week of 2015-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 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 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.592015-11-032026-07-092015-11-03 — best price $14.992015-12-02 — best price $14.992016-01-15 — best price $8.992016-04-08 — best price $7.722016-05-06 — best price $12.682016-07-02 — best price $14.992016-08-26 — best price $7.992016-10-03 — best price $9.992016-11-25 — best price $4.992017-01-12 — best price $2.492017-04-28 — best price $9.992017-07-10 — best price $9.992017-09-07 — best price $2.492018-01-25 — best price $9.992018-04-05 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-09-13 — best price $9.992018-11-22 — best price $2.492019-01-10 — best price $4.992019-04-11 — best price $2.492019-05-23 — best price $9.992019-09-12 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $2.492019-12-19 — best price $0.592020-07-09 — best price $5.992021-11-01 — best price $5.992022-06-23 — best price $1.192023-06-29 — best price $2.992024-03-14 — best price $1.192024-11-27 — best price $2.992025-06-26 — best price $2.992025-11-20 — best price $4.792026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-06-01 — 5 pageviews2026-06-05 — 2 pageviews2026-06-09 — 4 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-17 — 2 pageviews2026-06-21 — 9 pageviews2026-06-25 — 12 pageviews2026-06-29 — 3 pageviews2026-07-03 — 2 pageviews2026-07-07 — 2 pageviews2026-07-11 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 3 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-23 — 3 pageviews2026-07-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-31 — 4 pageviews2026-08-04 — 4 pageviews2026-08-08 — 0 pageviews2026-08-12 — 0 pageviews2026-08-16 — 1 pageviews2026-08-20 — 9 pageviews2026-08-24 — 6 pageviews2026-08-28 — 3 pageviews2026-09-01 — 2 pageviews2026-09-05 — 6 pageviews2026-09-09 — 3 pageviews2026-09-13 — 6 pageviews2026-09-17 — 2 pageviews2026-09-21 — 2 pageviews2026-09-25 — 0 pageviews2026-09-29 — 4 pageviews2026-10-03 — 5 pageviews2026-10-07 — 4 pageviews2026-10-11 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
34%
earned "The Journey Begins"
6.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2015-11-03 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2D2.5DIndieRetroActionCasualRobotsAdventurePlatformerExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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