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Power-Up cover art

Power-Up

Psychotic Psoftware · 2014-08-29

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 29, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A fast-paced retro shoot-'em-up featuring evolving weapons, intense arcade combat and massive bosses — from one-man studio Psychotic Psoftware.

Power-Up is a 2014 Action and Indie game priced at $2.99, with a review sentiment of Mixed (58% of 268 reviews) and an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000.

0
playing now
58%
positive of 268 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (10 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.7k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 268 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2015-06-11) · bundled 15×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820142026Week of 2014-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.01$0.592015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.992015-01-16 — best price $2.902015-03-04 — best price $2.992015-03-21 — best price $2.692015-05-23 — best price $2.742015-06-22 — best price $2.992015-07-23 — best price $2.992015-08-27 — best price $0.592015-10-14 — best price $0.592015-10-23 — best price $1.382015-10-26 — best price $2.742015-11-16 — best price $0.752015-11-27 — best price $1.492015-12-04 — best price $2.992015-12-22 — best price $1.492016-01-15 — best price $0.592016-02-05 — best price $1.492016-04-18 — best price $1.412016-05-17 — best price $1.012016-06-23 — best price $1.492016-08-05 — best price $2.792016-09-09 — best price $2.792017-05-26 — best price $1.492017-07-05 — best price $2.992017-10-26 — best price $1.792017-11-22 — best price $2.092018-01-04 — best price $2.992018-04-20 — best price $2.992018-07-17 — best price $2.392018-11-27 — best price $2.992019-03-22 — best price $2.832020-10-19 — best price $3.012022-03-02 — best price $2.772022-05-03 — best price $2.692024-02-11 — best price $2.492026-06-25 — best price $1.192026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsGamepad RecommendedFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieActionShoot 'Em UpSide Scroller

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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