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Propagation: Paradise Hotel

WanadevStudio · 2023-05-04

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: May 04, 2023 (Meta Quest 2), May 04, 2023 (SteamVR), Oct 12, 2023 (PlayStation VR2)

Trapped inside the Paradise Hotel, you are desperate to find your sister. Explore dark surroundings, gather resources, and survive terrifying encounters. This intense single-player VR survival horror game with great storytelling will get your adrenaline pumping.

Propagation: Paradise Hotel is an Action and Adventure game released in 2023, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (87% of 876 reviews).

2
playing now
87%
positive of 876 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4
Nexus mods (60 downloads)
4.65★
PlayStation Store rating (1,553 ratings)
3h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

You play as Emily Diaz, who has been barricaded in the kitchens of the Paradise Hotel for more than two weeks. A strange illness installed an atmosphere of terror as people started to mutate into ferocious monsters. In this chaos, you will have to save your sister. After intercepting one of her radio messages, you set out to find her. You will have to move in a hostile environment, and gather your courage to survive. Will you be able to face the horrors lurking in the hotel?(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 50 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (193 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 27,802 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 18k–39k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 876 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2025-05-26) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
17017020232026Week of 2023-05-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 4 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 4 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$5.992023-05-042026-08-132023-05-04 — best price $19.992023-06-30 — best price $16.992023-08-03 — best price $14.992023-09-18 — best price $14.992023-10-26 — best price $13.992023-11-21 — best price $13.992023-12-04 — best price $11.992023-12-11 — best price $19.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-02-12 — best price $19.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-06-03 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-08-26 — best price $19.992024-11-04 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-02-24 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-04-21 — best price $19.992025-06-02 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-11-03 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-23 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-05-15 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-13 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
71.6%
earned "Goodbye My Friend"
3.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5, PS VR2 (PlayStation)6025%12
Steam (Steam)5251%12

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

Player tags

VRFPSGoreActionHorrorPuzzleShooterStealthZombiesAdventure

Census log

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

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