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The Persistence

Firesprite Ltd · 2020-05-20

SteamAmazon

ActionAdventureIndie

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

Releases: May 21, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Jul 30, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), May 20, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 21, 2020 (Xbox One), Jun 24, 2018 (PlayStation VR)

Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.

The Persistence is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2020 for $29.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed sentiment (67% of 166 reviews).

0
playing now
67%
positive of 166 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$29.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

The Persistence is a 2018 virtual reality survival horror video game developed and published by Firesprite for the PlayStation 4. It was originally released for the system's virtual reality headset PlayStation VR. A version with support for conventional controls was released for Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One in May 2020; an Enhanced version of the game was released for Windows, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S in June 2021. It is the only game developed by Firesprite to appear on Nintendo and Xbox consoles, as the studio was closely associated with Sony Interactive Entertainment, who later acquired the studio as part of PlayStation Studios.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (31 reviews).
  • · Top 32% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.3k–7.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 166 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2022-05-02) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320202026Week of 2020-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$7.492020-05-212024-07-012020-05-21 — best price $25.482020-06-12 — best price $23.992020-07-10 — best price $23.992020-07-23 — best price $23.992020-08-15 — best price $26.882020-09-02 — best price $26.882020-09-26 — best price $29.992020-10-15 — best price $29.992020-11-02 — best price $29.992020-11-19 — best price $29.992020-12-05 — best price $26.882020-12-19 — best price $29.992021-01-21 — best price $22.982021-02-05 — best price $26.882021-02-22 — best price $22.982021-03-12 — best price $12.982021-04-02 — best price $22.982021-04-18 — best price $29.992021-05-02 — best price $26.882021-05-21 — best price $25.192021-06-05 — best price $29.992021-07-08 — best price $29.992021-08-25 — best price $29.992021-11-01 — best price $29.992022-01-22 — best price $29.992022-02-26 — best price $22.982022-04-04 — best price $29.992022-05-30 — best price $25.192022-07-11 — best price $29.992022-08-07 — best price $26.882022-09-16 — best price $11.932022-11-04 — best price $26.882022-12-13 — best price $26.882023-01-31 — best price $25.192023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-07-25 — best price $26.662024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-07-01 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.5k292026-06-01 — 32 pageviews2026-06-05 — 239 pageviews2026-06-09 — 71 pageviews2026-06-13 — 56 pageviews2026-06-17 — 43 pageviews2026-06-21 — 50 pageviews2026-06-25 — 29 pageviews2026-06-29 — 34 pageviews2026-07-03 — 29 pageviews2026-07-07 — 44 pageviews2026-07-11 — 48 pageviews2026-07-15 — 48 pageviews2026-07-19 — 103 pageviews2026-07-23 — 88 pageviews2026-07-27 — 39 pageviews2026-07-31 — 40 pageviews2026-08-04 — 36 pageviews2026-08-08 — 42 pageviews2026-08-12 — 108 pageviews2026-08-16 — 49 pageviews2026-08-20 — 96 pageviews2026-08-24 — 54 pageviews2026-08-28 — 58 pageviews2026-09-01 — 50 pageviews2026-09-05 — 154 pageviews2026-09-09 — 68 pageviews2026-09-13 — 52 pageviews2026-09-17 — 53 pageviews2026-09-21 — 47 pageviews2026-09-25 — 41 pageviews2026-09-29 — 35 pageviews2026-10-03 — 38 pageviews2026-10-07 — 81 pageviews2026-10-10 — 31 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

43
achievements tracked
70.8%
earned "Let's do this"
8.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportVR SupportedSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

17 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-06-11 (Steam store data)

Player tags

VRFPSPvPActionHorrorSci-fiStealthSurvivalStory RichFirst-Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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