Publish or Perish
Short description
Publish or Perish is a game that simulates working in academia. In order to keep your job, you must publish scientific work. Reviewers are here to get you and all you can do is try to survive. Can you publish enough papers to enjoy tenure? (Contains practical advice for academics)
- Developer
- Tapped Mango
- Publisher
- Tapped Mango
- Release
- Tue, May 21, 2024
- Price
- $1.99
- Reviews
- 12
- Positive
- 92%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Casual, Simulation
- Features
- Full controller support
- 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 15, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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