Penarium

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Penarium

Short description

Penarium is a frantic 2D arena arcade game where you take on the role of Willy, trapped in a sinister circus show. Run, jump and avoid an array of killer death-traps while being cheered on by a sadistic crowd that’s out for blood.

Developer
Self Made Miracle
Publisher
Team17 Digital Ltd
Release
Tue, Sep 22, 2015
Price
$9.99
$1.99
80%
Reviews
94
Positive
91%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
50K – 100K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Action, Indie
Features
Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Leaderboards, Remote Play on TV, Remote Play Together
Tags
Indie Action Funny Difficult Platformer Pixel Graphics Controller Colorful Singleplayer Retro Local Co-Op Fast-Paced Co-op 2D Platformer Adventure Gore 2D Arcade
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$36ksomewhere between $16k and $844k · roughly 2K–100K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $8.44, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $9.99 launch price. That is 16% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

3 data points since Jul 27, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$36k → ~$36k
Reviews 94 → 94
Price $1.99 → $1.99
Positive reviews 91.5% → 91.5%

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.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 298 further data points reach back to Sep 1, 2015 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

The dashed line marks Jul 28, 2026, when steamlense started measuring. Everything to its left was backfilled from public sources — monthly review counts from Steam, price changes from IsThereAnyDeal, monthly player averages from SteamCharts. Those are monthly figures, so the curve is coarser there — one point a month instead of one a day.

Lowest recorded price: $1.49 on Nov 10, 2019.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Penarium is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Indie + Action + Funny

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Penarium. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

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Mutant Mudds Deluxe Mutant Mudds Deluxe Atooi 7 titles 5 − Funny + Retro $9.99 400 79% Thu, Nov 21, 2013 $157k
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$143k – $165k
Master Spy Master Spy TURBOGUN first game 5 − Funny + Stealth $9.99 278 77% Tue, Sep 08, 2015 $168k
$168k – $187k
OVERWHELM OVERWHELM Ruari O'Sullivan first game 5 − Funny + Horror $9.99 215 84% Mon, Jun 11, 2018 $92k
$41k – $478k
Blitz Breaker Blitz Breaker Boncho Games first game 5 − Funny + Great Soundtrack $2.99 112 88% Tue, Feb 02, 2016 $11k
$5k – $108k

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