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The Persistence

Firesprite Ltd · 2020-05-20

SteamAmazon

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

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.

0
playing now
67%
positive of 166 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
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)
$29.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 61% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
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

Players online

202026-08-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 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

1.5k222026-06-01 — 32 pageviews2026-06-04 — 449 pageviews2026-06-07 — 104 pageviews2026-06-10 — 82 pageviews2026-06-13 — 56 pageviews2026-06-16 — 56 pageviews2026-06-19 — 72 pageviews2026-06-22 — 43 pageviews2026-06-25 — 29 pageviews2026-06-28 — 43 pageviews2026-07-01 — 46 pageviews2026-07-04 — 36 pageviews2026-07-07 — 44 pageviews2026-07-10 — 28 pageviews2026-07-13 — 36 pageviews2026-07-16 — 33 pageviews2026-07-19 — 103 pageviews2026-07-22 — 37 pageviews2026-07-25 — 63 pageviews2026-07-28 — 49 pageviews2026-07-31 — 40 pageviews2026-08-03 — 37 pageviews2026-08-06 — 40 pageviews2026-08-09 — 54 pageviews2026-08-12 — 108 pageviews2026-08-15 — 39 pageviews2026-08-18 — 66 pageviews2026-08-21 — 54 pageviews2026-08-24 — 54 pageviews2026-08-27 — 43 pageviews2026-08-29 — 44 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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…

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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