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What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Particle Mace is a masterful lesson in game design that with its perfect scoring system and haunting beautiful abstract world will put you in some sort of hypnotic trance. While you leave your mind behind you, tracing circles like in a Sufi whirling dance ritual. One of the most…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“The only thing worse than only having orange garbage particles for a weapon, is being killed by someone swinging orange garbage particles around.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Since it's been ten years I thought I'd come back and revise this review once again. I had a negative review here because there was some craziness about the publisher putting in a weird scammy launcher on top of it, but that seems to be all in the past now. The only issue the…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2024-03 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-20.
Price tracking
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Indie · Action · Adventure · Arcade · 2D · Great Soundtrack · Local Co-Op · Multiplayer · Local Multiplayer · Retro · Shoot 'Em Up · 4 Player Local (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 21 |
| Official site | http://particlemace.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP Memory: 2 GB RAM Storage: 100 MB available space