Pernicious overview

Overview

Pernicious comes from sdaj and is published by sdaj. It arrived on Steam on Nov 23, 2025, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Pernicious's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 17:13:56 UTC, with a tracked peak near 2. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 33% positive across 3 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Pernicious is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Pernicious has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Pernicious overview details

Pernicious combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

This is a physics - based survival game centered on extreme horizontal evasion. Players take control of a yellow cuboid and, under the strict constraint of only being able to move left or right, engage in a life - or - death game of hide - and - seek with giant blue spheres and small red orbs. Every single move holds the key to the survival of their health bar! Core Gameplay: A Life - and - Death Struggle in the Horizontal Dimension Simple Operations, Difficult Strategies: Only left - right swiping is needed, yet players have to predict the rolling trajectory of the giant blue spheres and the突袭 path of the small red orbs. Health Bar as Lifeline: Any collision with the spheres will cause continuous blood loss, making the difficulty of “shifting left and right” skyrocket exponentially. Essence of the Experience: Thrills Erupting from Constraints The setting of “only being able to move left or right” turns evasion into an “art of timing”: Move horizontally 0.1 second before a blue sphere rolls to the critical point, and let a red orb fly past the edge of the cuboid... The low - polygon graphics amplify the vibrational feedback of “near - miss evasions”. Each survival is like completing a micro “horizontal breakout battle”. With its most straightforward rules, the game forces players to gain an ultimate understanding of “physical trajectories” and “timing control”. There are no complex operations, only life - or - death choices in the “split - second decision of left or right”. It is suitable for fragmented time challenges. In the excitement of “a narrow escape by a hair…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Pernicious is listed as a game with $19.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure and Racing. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 17:13:56 UTC, a tracked peak of 2, and 33% positive reviews.

Support and legal notes

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