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Sweet Surrender VR cover art

Sweet Surrender VR

Salmi Games · 2021-09-30

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Virtual Reality

Releases: Sep 30, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 30, 2021 (Meta Quest 2), Sep 30, 2021 (Oculus Quest), Oct 30, 2025 (PlayStation VR2)

Sweet Surrender is a fast-paced roguelike VR shooter. Fight your way up a dystopian megatower, filled to the brim with tyrant machines hell-bent on destroying the last of humanity. Build your arsenal of weapons, upgrades, and explosives to take down the machine overlords.

Sweet Surrender VR is an Action and Indie game released in 2021, priced at $24.99, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (86% of 148 reviews).

86%
positive of 148 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
52/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
4.55★
PlayStation Store rating (89 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$24.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (27 reviews).
  • · Top 33% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.0k–6.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 148 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
222220212026Week of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 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.

Completion

30
achievements tracked
96.5%
earned "Robot Hunter"
4.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-09-30 (Steam store data)

Player tags

VRFPSActionSci-fiShooterStylizedDystopian Rogue-likeRogue-liteFirst-Person

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