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[REC] Paroxysm

Perspektik · 2024-07-25

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 25, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You're a horror content creator, venturing into frightening locations to captivate your audience. You're attempting to attract more viewers by recording paranormal events. However, these horror-filled adventures will one day come back to haunt you, at a high cost.

85%
positive of 337 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$3.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 42% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.7k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 337 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
414120242026Week of 2024-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.99$1.992024-07-252026-07-202024-07-25 — best price $3.592024-08-01 — best price $3.992024-10-28 — best price $2.672024-11-04 — best price $3.992024-11-27 — best price $2.392024-12-04 — best price $3.992024-12-19 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $3.992025-01-16 — best price $2.592025-01-23 — best price $3.992025-03-13 — best price $2.392025-03-20 — best price $3.992025-04-12 — best price $2.992025-04-19 — best price $3.992025-05-19 — best price $2.792025-05-26 — best price $3.992025-06-27 — best price $2.392025-07-10 — best price $3.992025-07-27 — best price $3.392025-08-10 — best price $3.992025-09-29 — best price $2.792025-10-06 — best price $3.992025-10-27 — best price $2.392025-11-03 — best price $3.992025-12-18 — best price $2.792026-01-05 — best price $3.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $3.992026-04-06 — best price $3.192026-04-13 — best price $3.992026-05-18 — best price $3.192026-05-25 — best price $3.992026-06-25 — best price $2.392026-07-09 — best price $3.992026-07-13 — best price $3.192026-07-20 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
82.6%
earned "Boo !"
49.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

17 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Polish, Romanian, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Arabic, Persian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)11526%5

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

Player tags

DarkIndieHorrorThrillerRealisticStory RichAtmosphericFirst-PersonSingleplayerPsychological Horror

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.