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Pyromaniac

Dominik Braun · tayoDEV · 2026-01-30

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 30, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It's 2009. A 20-year-old Nikolas Rendl wakes up on a bench near a bus stop in an unfamiliar city, without any previous knowledge of what happened. Nikolas has to wander around the cold streets of the city and defend himself from scorched monsters with only one goal: Find answers to all of this.

86%
positive of 867 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 349 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~44/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 17k–39k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 867 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
707020262026Week of 2026-01-30: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-06: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-02-06: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-13: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-20: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-02-27: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-06: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-13: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-27: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-27: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-03: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-10: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-17: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-24: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-08: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-05-08: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-15: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-05-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-22: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-05-29: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-05-29: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-05: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-06-05: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-12: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-06-12: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-19: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-06-19: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-26: 70 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-07-03: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-07-03: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-07-10: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-17: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-07-17: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-24: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-07-24: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-31: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-07: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-08-07: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-14: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-14: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$2.492026-01-302026-08-162026-01-30 — best price $3.992026-02-06 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-15 — best price $3.992026-08-16 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
88.9%
earned "Close Call"
8.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsStereo SoundFamily Sharing1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Italian, French, Polish, Romanian, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1262%21

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

Census log

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

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