Paratopic overview

Overview

Paratopic comes from Arbitrary Metric and is published by Serenity Forge. It arrived on Steam on Sep 6, 2018, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Captions available, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam, and Xbox so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Paratopic's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 1 players at 22 September 2026 - 13:08:44 UTC, with a tracked peak near 4. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 73% positive across 2,176 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Paratopic is available in 2 languages including:

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

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Paratopic has sold up to 75,700 units and has 1,368 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $291,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Paratopic overview details

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

Steam Store description

"Paratopic is probably the most important first-person game this year." Waypoint You got caught smuggling VHS tapes across the border, and now there's hell to pay. You want to find an elusive rare bird in the forest and snap its picture. You have to kill a man in the back room of a shady diner. This is Paratopic, an experimental first-person horror game named by Rock, Paper, Shotgun as one of the best games of 2018, and by FACT mag as having one of the top 10 soundtracks of the year. A narrative, horror tinged adventure game that takes you on a journey through a cruel fever dream world. Cutting between numerous detailed and varied vignettes, unravel how the stories of three separate characters intersect. Explore the detritus of forbidden industry, kill, drive through the night, find yourself in conversation with some very off-kilter individuals. A leisurely playthrough should take forty five minutes give or take, with plenty more to discover in the detailed, grimey low polygon environments. Or speedrun it, if you'd prefer. Over an hour of gorgeous dark ambient music is used to create our subtly dynamic soundscape. An anachronistic blend of modern and outdated production as glitches and textural pads meet synthesis & sampling akin to a haunted recollection of 90s Unreal Engine soundtracks.

SteamPulse editorial summary

Paratopic is listed as a game with $5.49. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Captions available, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 1 players at 22 September 2026 - 13:08:44 UTC, a tracked peak of 4, and 73% positive reviews.

Overview tags

IndieHorrorSurrealAdventureRetroAtmosphericShortExperimentalPsychological HorrorStylizedGreat SoundtrackDarkWalking SimulatorViolentFirst-Person

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