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PANICORE

PANICORE

PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.

Released May 31, 2024 Developer ZTEK Studio Platforms Windows HorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPsychological HorrorFirst-Person
View on Steam ↗ $9.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

80.5%positive10,547 reviews
Recommended · 15 found this helpful

“Very fun game to play with friends! Don't listen to those who say otherwise. Clearly they dont have friends to play it with.”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
Recommended · 11 found this helpful

“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too…”

— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played
Not recommended · 35 found this helpful

“This is prolly the worst game i have ever played. Its a pile a garbage where you cant take one step without the monster running from across the map to lick your butthole and make you call it daddy”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:29 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

73playing at last check
14324-hour peak
3,491all-time peak
0 1k 2k 2025 2026 1.3k avg · Jun 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

30achievements
3.7%median completion
0.2%rarest: Coal for Santa
61.4% of players 59.9% of players 46.9% of players 34.1% of players 24.4% of players 23.3% of players 21.3% of players 15.8% of players 12.2% of players 11.8% of players 10.9% of players 9.0% of players 6.9% of players 5.9% of players 5.1% of players 3.7% of players 2.7% of players 2.6% of players 2.3% of players 2.3% of players 2.0% of players 1.8% of players 1.5% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 0.8% of players 0.6% of players 0.4% of players 0.2% of players 61.4% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
61.4%Carpenter — Built a ladder using the instructions in the school
59.9%Graduated — Escaped the Volga Middle School
46.9%Learning Explorer — Reach level 5
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%Coal for Santa — Escape the Snowbound map on PAINCORE difficulty
0.4%Super Soldier — Escape from the Military Base on PAINCORE difficulty
0.6%Hungry for more — Slap 2222 zombies

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$9.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$6.69lowest since tracking began2026-07-13
US9.99 USD
EU9.99 EUR
UK8.99 GBP
Australia13.95 AUD
Canada11.99 CAD
Japan1,199 JPY
Brazil19.99 BRL
China23.49 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$3.5 Brazil Japan Canada Australia US EU UK≈$12

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 27, 2026
Summer Plans

Hey PANICORE enjoyers! First of all thank you for the interest you're showing during the summer sale , we're really happy to see PANICORE still has a name in the indie horror game genre, it means a lo

Apr 28, 2026
PANICORE - Bug Fix Update & What's Coming Next

PANICORE enjoyers! 📢 We got some exciting news for you! Patch 1.3.2 - Coming in the next 1–2 weeks We're currently finalizing a patch focused on Voice Chat stability and the monster's Voice Recognitio

Dec 18, 2025
Small Patch 1.3.1

Panicore Release Version 1.3.1 Bugfixes: Fixed a bug where some maps were always locked for some players Fixed a bug where the hospital monster's lights would not be affected by the difficulty (should

Dec 03, 2025
Major Update 1.3 Release

PANICORE enjoyers! Major Update 1.3 is now officially LIVE ! 🎉 After a pretty smooth beta phase, we're excited to finally bring the full release to everyone. As mentioned in an earlier post, the updat

Nov 28, 2025
Major Update 1.3 in Public Beta!

PANICORE enjoyers! We're excited to let you know that Major Update 1.3 will enter public beta testing this weekend, leading up to its full release on December 3rd! This update went smoother than usual

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie
Player tagsHorror · Online Co-Op · Multiplayer · Psychological Horror · First-Person · PvE · Action Roguelike · Stealth · Singleplayer · Action-Adventure · Co-op · Action (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Swedi…
Achievements30
Estimated owners500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy)
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64 Bit) Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel Core i5-7500 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 470 with 4GB VRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 with 4GB VRAM DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 13 GB available space