PANICORE
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $1.23/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 62% over the last 30 days against 79% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 470 with 4GB VRAM ／ NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 with 4GB VRAM, 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.34. That was March 2025. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 23 in the 2 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 49 percent on value. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Labyrinthine ($9.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats BIGFOOT ($19.99, scores 43).
Players rate it 79 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 62 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 54 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and none of the 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply has a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 54 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 2,681 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
61% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
About 182 players at once, at SteamSpy's last count.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I wouldn't recommend this game in its current state, revisited it for the last two updates and just had no fun at all. Used to be a decent game, now there's a weeping angel monster that just decides it wants to move while you're looking at it, a horrible military base impossible to beat as a duo and a new Santa monster that is on a narrow corridor map and has zero noise so you have no idea where he is. Hoping for...
garbage AI, the monster is just a heat seeking missile no matter how quiet or still you are
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
PANICORE scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2695940/panicoreReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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