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PulseCharge

Endless Project Games · 2016-01-27

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 27, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

2D platforming with an emphasis on speed and exploration! Absorb enemy attacks to charge up your own attacks! You must absorb, dodge and weave your way through intense gauntlets and defeat your evil self.

PulseCharge is an Action, Indie game released in 2016, priced at $0.49, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mixed sentiment (51% of 192 reviews).

1
playing now
51%
positive of 193 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.49
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 30% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.8k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 193 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.23 at IndieGala Store (2016-09-01) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620162026Week of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 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: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1260Feb 2016May 2025Feb 2016 — avg 4 · peak 21Apr 2016 — avg 6 · peak 90Jun 2016 — avg 24 · peak 176Aug 2016 — avg 5 · peak 21Oct 2016 — avg 4 · peak 103Dec 2016 — avg 4 · peak 32Feb 2017 — avg 3 · peak 71Apr 2017 — avg 14 · peak 75Jun 2017 — avg 10 · peak 223Aug 2017 — avg 24 · peak 390Oct 2017 — avg 59 · peak 1,557Dec 2017 — avg 34 · peak 498Feb 2018 — avg 30 · peak 315Apr 2018 — avg 10 · peak 474Jun 2018 — avg 25 · peak 2,899Aug 2018 — avg 22 · peak 440Oct 2018 — avg 4 · peak 276Dec 2018 — avg 1 · peak 36Feb 2019 — avg 4 · peak 150Apr 2019 — avg 1 · peak 76Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 9Aug 2019 — avg 7 · peak 342Oct 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2020 — avg 22 · peak 662May 2020 — avg 1 · peak 81Aug 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2020 — avg 1 · peak 2Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2021 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2021 — avg 5 · peak 119Dec 2021 — avg 11 · peak 193Feb 2022 — avg 13 · peak 150Jun 2022 — avg 12 · peak 238Sep 2022 — avg 8 · peak 89Jan 2023 — avg 12 · peak 278Mar 2023 — avg 6 · peak 34Jul 2023 — avg 17 · peak 60Sep 2023 — avg 4 · peak 31May 2025 — avg 1 · peak 2

▼ −1 avg players (−46.6%) vs prior month — May 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$2.99$0.232015-09-222026-08-242015-09-22 — best price $1.332016-01-15 — best price $1.992016-02-05 — best price $1.792016-02-22 — best price $2.392016-05-03 — best price $0.242016-05-29 — best price $0.992016-07-26 — best price $2.992016-09-08 — best price $0.992016-11-23 — best price $0.492017-02-12 — best price $0.992017-08-02 — best price $0.492017-11-28 — best price $0.992018-02-15 — best price $0.492018-07-05 — best price $0.992018-10-30 — best price $0.492019-01-04 — best price $0.992020-07-09 — best price $0.992021-02-15 — best price $0.992021-12-22 — best price $0.492022-02-20 — best price $0.992022-07-11 — best price $0.512022-10-03 — best price $0.992023-03-16 — best price $0.492023-07-13 — best price $0.992023-11-21 — best price $0.492024-02-12 — best price $0.992024-06-10 — best price $0.492024-08-05 — best price $0.992024-11-27 — best price $0.492025-01-13 — best price $0.992025-03-31 — best price $0.492025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-09-29 — best price $0.492025-12-18 — best price $0.492026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-06-25 — best price $0.492026-08-24 — best price $0.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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Player tags

2DIndieActionPuzzleCartoonFantasyCartoonyHand-drawnPlatformerPsychedelic

Census log

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

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