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Spectral Scream cover art

Spectral Scream

STOIC Ent. · 2024-08-28

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Virtual Reality

Releases: Aug 29, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 29, 2024 (SteamVR)

Spectral Scream is a 1-4 player cooperative horror exploration game. Are you ready to face death in the maw of purgatory? Your goal is to find key items in each chapter and retrieve the orb. But be careful! Threatening and vicious creatures await you at every stage.

Spectral Scream is an Action, Adventure, Indie, Strategy game released in 2024, priced at $5.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (78% of 737 reviews).

0
playing now
78%
positive of 737 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 66% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (191 reviews).
  • · Top 17% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 15k–33k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 737 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2024-06-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 11 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16416420242026Week of 2024-05-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 7 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$4.992024-05-092026-08-242024-05-09 — best price $8.992024-06-27 — best price $4.992024-08-29 — best price $7.992024-10-28 — best price $6.992024-11-27 — best price $5.992024-12-11 — best price $6.992024-12-19 — best price $6.992025-02-21 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $5.992025-04-07 — best price $4.992025-05-19 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $4.992025-07-16 — best price $4.992025-09-08 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $4.992025-10-27 — best price $4.992025-12-08 — best price $6.992025-12-18 — best price $4.992026-01-19 — best price $4.992026-03-02 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $4.992026-04-13 — best price $5.992026-05-25 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $5.992026-07-13 — best price $4.992026-08-24 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
53.2%
earned "First Defeat"
10.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsVR SupportedFamily Sharing2 DLC

14 supported languages: English, Korean, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Greek, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil…

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2025-01-23 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1331%82

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

Player tags

Co-opLogicDemonsHorrorPuzzleMysteryGod GameStrategyThrillerExploration

Census log

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

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