The Pest
Short description
Solve challenging puzzles and avoid dangerous traps of the computer defence system in this puzzle-platformer game about a tiny optimistic computer pest heading to the System's Core. Will he plunge our world into chaos, or will he have mercy? It's up to you.
- Developer
- Ostap Trush
- Publisher
- Multiverse Experience, Ostap Trush
- Release
- Wed, May 18, 2022
- Price
- Free
- Reviews
- 2
- Positive
- 100%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Indie
- Tags
No revenue estimate: this needs both a review count and a launch price, and at least one of them is missing.
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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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LIMBO | Playdead 2 titles | 4 | − Linear − Story Rich + Dark + Atmospheric | $1.24 90% |
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Braid | Number None first game | 4 | − Linear − Story Rich + 2D Platformer + Time Manipulation | $14.99 | 6,938 | 93% | Fri, Apr 10, 2009 | $3.8m $1.7m – $24.5m |
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