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[REC] Paroxysm
You're a horror content creator, venturing into frightening locations to captivate your audience. You're attempting to attract more viewers by recording paranormal events. However, these horror-filled adventures will one day come back to haunt you, at a high cost.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
“A very effective short horror game with a genuinely frightening atmosphere. The scares in this game are extremely well crafted and aided in no small part by some truly excellent sound design. The game is also just short enough to not overstay it's welcome. Overall a great game…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Great game! If youre looking for a short scary game. BUY IT!”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“I was able to beat the game in about 40 minutes with all achievements. Thats where the good things about this game end. For being made in Unreal Engine the graphics/visuals are really bad. It reminds me of a Playstation 1 game with too many dark areas and hurts just to look at…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Psychological Horror · Indie · Horror · Thriller · Realistic · Atmospheric · Singleplayer · First-Person · Dark · Story Rich (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Polish, Romanian, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Jap… |
| Achievements | 5 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 / 11 Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel Core i3 7100 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 550 Storage: 11 GB available space