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Pressured cover art

Pressured

Paul Marrable · Funbox Media Ltd · 2014-07-18

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 18, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Pressured is a unique and intense number puzzler. Hit your targets to unlock pieces of the dark story, all told via the poetry of Nicholas Gordon. Created by Paul Marrable With music from Matt Mcfarland.

Pressured is a 2014 Indie game priced at $0.74, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (49% of 555 reviews).

0
playing now
49%
positive of 555 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.74
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (54 reviews).
  • · Top 15% of 49,670 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 14k–33k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 555 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.29 at Steam (2015-01-26) · bundled 13×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 16 of 37 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
282820142026Week of 2014-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek 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

7602026-09-15 15:00 — 76 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 7 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.292015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $0.742015-06-26 — best price $2.992015-11-26 — best price $0.382016-03-21 — best price $1.492016-08-05 — best price $2.792016-11-30 — best price $2.992017-03-26 — best price $2.992017-09-04 — best price $2.992018-01-04 — best price $2.992018-07-03 — best price $2.992018-11-22 — best price $0.742019-03-01 — best price $2.992019-10-25 — best price $0.642020-01-31 — best price $2.992020-07-09 — best price $2.992020-11-09 — best price $0.892021-02-04 — best price $0.672021-03-23 — best price $0.672021-09-13 — best price $0.892022-02-15 — best price $0.672022-06-14 — best price $2.992022-09-20 — best price $0.552023-01-03 — best price $2.992023-05-02 — best price $2.992023-09-18 — best price $2.992023-11-29 — best price $2.992023-12-27 — best price $0.562024-03-14 — best price $0.742024-04-14 — best price $2.992024-08-10 — best price $2.002024-11-25 — best price $2.992025-02-24 — best price $2.992025-05-20 — best price $2.992025-10-01 — best price $0.752025-12-19 — best price $0.562026-05-11 — best price $0.742026-08-24 — best price $0.74
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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Player tags

IndieCasualPuzzle

Census log

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

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