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Press Ctrl

Short description

A mind-bending puzzler where your avatar controls another avatar via an in-game keyboard.

Developer
Idan Rooze
Publisher
Idan Rooze
Release
Tue, Mar 16, 2021
Price
$1.99
Reviews
492
Positive
90%
Followers
473
Owners (estimated)
0 – 20K
Concurrent players
1
Genres
Indie
Features
Partial Controller Support
Tags
Puzzle Difficult 2D Cute Top-Down Funny Psychological Horror Linear Casual Pixel Graphics Minimalist Family Friendly Logic Philosophical Indie Atmospheric Singleplayer
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$38ksomewhere between $18k and $38k · roughly 10K–20K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $1.88, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $1.99 launch price. That is 6% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

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

Revenue (est.) ~$37k → ~$38k
Reviews 486 → 492
Followers 470 → 473
Concurrent players 1 → 1
Price $1.99 → $1.99
Positive reviews 90.1% → 90.2%

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. 133 further data points reach back to Mar 1, 2021 — 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: $0.99 on Mar 19, 2026.

How crowded is this niche?

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

±?? Puzzle + Difficult + 2D

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