Deadly Joy
Short description
Deadly Joy is a multiplayer horror game where Play Center employees must survive deadly missions. Cooperate or betray in challenges like Parkour, Basement, and Tower, while escaping terrifying mascots like Hugster and the CatBox.
- Developer
- Napping Penguin
- Publisher
- Napping Penguin
- Release
- Fri, May 02, 2025
- Price
- $2.99
- Reviews
- 9
- Positive
- 33%
- Followers
- 22
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie
- Features
- Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Co-op, Online Co-op
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $2.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
2 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
Lowest recorded price: $2.99 on Aug 1, 2026. That is the current price.
Similar games that found an audience
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| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Dead by Daylight | Behaviour Interactive Inc. 18 titles | 4 | − Realistic − Cute + Survival Horror + Survival | $7.99 60% |
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|
Phasmophobia | Kinetic Games first game | 4 | − Realistic − Cute + Psychological Horror + Supernatural | $13.99 30% |
685,666 | 95% | Fri, Sep 18, 2020 | $297m $204m – $297m |
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R.E.P.O. | semiwork 2 titles | 4 | − Realistic − Cute + Comedy + Physics | $9.99 | 344,939 | 96% | Wed, Feb 26, 2025 | $145m $93.5m – $187m |
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Escape the Backrooms | Blackbird Interactive 10 titles +1 | 4 | − Realistic − Cute + Psychological Horror + Survival Horror | $9.99 | 139,426 | 90% | Thu, Oct 23, 2025 | $47.3m $26.4m – $47.3m |
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Content Warning | Philip 2 titles +4 | 4 | − Realistic − Cute + Funny + First-Person | $7.99 | 72,956 | 93% | Mon, Apr 01, 2024 | $37.3m $37.3m – $43.5m |
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