Penetrator
Short description
In this addictive side-scrolling shoot-em-up from 1982, your mission is to penetrate through four defence rings, and blow up an illegal cache of neutron bombs - an almost impossible feat! Enemy missiles and radar bases track your movements, and the landscape is as treacherous as your enemies.
- Developer
- Beam Software
- Publisher
- Pixel Games UK
- Release
- Tue, May 17, 2022
- Price
- $1.99
- Reviews
- 2
- Positive
- 50%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Action
- Features
- Multi-player, PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen, Includes level editor
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $1.99 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
Tracking started Aug 12, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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