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You are Peter Shorts
You are PETER SHORTS! You have been captured and taken to a secret cloning facility. Can you escape with your newly-cloned brethren?
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 2026-05-15.
“This is more of a precision platformer than I was expecting. Being a platform fighter inspired game, I was hoping the combat and action to feel more the focus and not just functionally there. The kits you unlock are fun to experiment with, but it fast became spamming the thing…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Very fun adventure and fighting game. Cool morph mechanics. I am shocked it has very few reviews (currently 191).”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“-”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2024-05 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 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-13. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
v2.0.0 - The Multi-Peter Update
After months of work and playtesting, the Multi-Peter update is officially here! Big thanks to everyone who participated in the beta and submitted bug reports. I am fairly confident v2.0.0 is stable,
Online Multiplayer Public Beta!
Peter Shorts' big birthday update is almost ready! You can opt-into the public_beta branch to try it out! Enter the door titled PLAY ONLINE (to the left of the title) to create/join a lobby. All game
v1.0.18 Patch notes roundup
More patch notes for the last few versions. Mostly bug fixes with a few small features thrown in. Here are the major additions: VS mode has a random character button now. Performance mode was added. I
macOS port delayed indefinitely
Hi everyone, I've got bad news for mac users - the game (in its current state) will not run on macOS. Does this mean the macOS port is canceled? Well, for the foreseeable future, yeah :( The main tech
v1.0.15 Steam AutoCloud support on Windows
Hi everyone. This round of hotfixes addresses issues with save data backups, as well as some level design tweaks. Steam AutoCloud has been enabled for Windows. It is untested on Steam Deck at the mome
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Metroidvania · Beat 'em up · 2D Platformer · Puzzle-Platformer · 2D Fighter · Action-Adventure · Side Scroller · Precision Platformer · Platformer · Funny · 2D · Cute (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 13 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Memory: 2 GB RAM Storage: 50 MB available space Additional Notes: Untested on Win 7/8, should work