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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.

0
playing now
58%
positive of 268 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
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 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 55% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
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)

Players online

11402026-08-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 114 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 13 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 18 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 24 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 27 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 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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