The Menace Below overview

Patryk Piekarz | Dec 18, 2025 | game

Released

0players observed · 22 September 2026 - 00:32:03 UTC

Action Adventure Indie Free To Play Steam Store

Latest observed playersNot available
SteamPulse tracked peak1
Units sold (VGI)No data available
Revenue (VGI)No data available
Review score65% positive

The Menace Below dated player observations, monthly player trends, reviews, and game metadata are tracked on SteamPulse.

Latest observed playersNot available
SteamPulse tracked peak1
Units sold (VGI)No data available
Revenue (VGI)No data available
Review score65% positive
Total reviews17
Release dateDec 18, 2025
DeveloperPatryk Piekarz
PublisherPatryk Piekarz

Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie, Free To Play

Company pages: Developer: Patryk Piekarz Publisher: Patryk Piekarz

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Game overview

Overview

The Menace Below comes from Patryk Piekarz and is published by Patryk Piekarz. It arrived on Steam on Dec 18, 2025, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Menace Below's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 00:32:03 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 65% positive across 17 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Menace Below is available in 103 languages including:

EnglishFrenchItalianGermanSpanish - SpainArabicBulgarianTraditional ChineseSimplified ChineseCzechDanishFinnishGreekSpanish - Latin AmericaDutchIndonesianJapaneseKoreanNorwegianPolishPortuguese - PortugalPortuguese - BrazilRussianRomanianSwedishThaiTurkishUkrainianVietnameseHungarianAfrikaansAlbanianAmharicAssameseAzerbaijaniBasqueBanglaBelarusianBosnianCroatianCherokeeDariEstonianFilipinoGalicianGeorgianGujaratiHausaHebrewHindiIgboIrishIcelandicYorubaKannadaCatalanKazakhQuechuaKhmerK'iche'KyrgyzKonkaniLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalayalamMalayMalteseMaoriMarathiMongolianNepaliOdiaArmenianPunjabi (Gurmukhi)Punjabi (Shahmukhi)PersianKinyarwandaScotsSerbianSindhiSoraniSothoSwahiliSinhalaSlovakSlovenianTajikTamilTatarTeluguTigrinyaTswanaTurkmenUyghurUrduUzbekValencianWelshWolofXhosaZuluLatvian

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Platform	Type	OS	Processor	Memory	Graphics	Storage
Windows	Minimum	Windows 10	1600 Mhz	2 GB RAM	128 MB	434 MB available space
Windows	Recommended	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed
Linux	Minimum	Not listed	Not listed	434 MB RAM	Not listed	Not listed

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Menace Below has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Detailed game overview

The Menace Below overview details

The Menace Below combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

A prisoner of war finds a way to escape his captors, only to fall into the far more dangerous clutches of horrible monstrosities. The Menace Below is a short, difficult, hand-drawn cinematic platformer with a dark, brooding soundtrack. You will control the prisoner as he escapes to freedom. This challange will be full of lethal traps and malevolent monsters - you will need cunning, adaptability and quick reflexes to survive.

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Menace Below is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action, Adventure, Indie, and Free To Play. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 00:32:03 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 65% positive reviews.

Overview facts

Field	Value
Game	The Menace Below
Steam App ID	4128370
Type	game
Release date	Dec 18, 2025
Developer	Patryk Piekarz
Publisher	Patryk Piekarz
Price	Free to play
Platforms	Windows
Genres	Action, Adventure, Indie, Free To Play
Categories	Single-player, Family Sharing
Supported languages	English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Spanish - Latin America, Dutch, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bangla, Belarusian, Bosnian, Croatian, Cherokee, Dari, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Igbo, Irish, Icelandic, Yoruba, Kannada, Catalan, Kazakh, Quechua, Khmer, K'iche', Kyrgyz, Konkani, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malayalam, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Odia, Armenian, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Persian, Kinyarwanda, Scots, Serbian, Sindhi, Sorani, Sotho, Swahili, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tigrinya, Tswana, Turkmen, Uyghur, Urdu, Uzbek, Valencian, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu, Latvian
Website	Not available

Player and review overview

Metric	Value
Latest observed players	0 · 22 September 2026 - 00:32:03 UTC
SteamPulse tracked peak	1
Positive reviews	11
Negative reviews	6
Total reviews	17
Positive percent	65%
Review type	Mixed
Recommendations	Not available
Average playtime	Not available

SteamPulse record freshness

Field	Value
Steam release date	Dec 18, 2025
Official Steam feed update (UTC)	Not available
SteamPulse last record update (UTC)	22 September 2026 - 00:32:03 UTC
Live player count updated (UTC)	22 September 2026 - 00:32:03 UTC
Store metadata updated (UTC)	22 September 2026 - 00:32:03 UTC

Content descriptors

violence and gore

Support and legal notes

Field	Value
Support email	[email protected]
Support URL	Not available
Legal notice	Not available

References

Official and third-party reference links for checking this Steam app outside SteamPulse.

Reference	Link
SteamPulse canonical	https://steampulse.org/game/4128370
Steam Store	https://store.steampowered.com/app/4128370/
Steam Community	https://steamcommunity.com/app/4128370
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IGDB search	Search IGDB for The Menace Below

Game FAQ

Real questions answered from SteamPulse data, including live players, monthly momentum, review sentiment, regional audience signals, Twitch activity, and current Steam pricing.

What is the latest observed Steam activity for The Menace Below?

The Menace Below's latest SteamPulse observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 00:32:03 UTC, with a tracked peak of 1 concurrent players in the available SteamPulse record. The tracked peak is the highest value stored by SteamPulse and may not cover activity from before tracking began.

Is The Menace Below growing or declining recently?

September 2026 is still in progress. The month-to-date average is 0 players; the highest observed daily value is 0 players. Available values are provisional and will continue changing until the UTC month closes. The completed comparison month is August 2026.

What country-level audience data is available for The Menace Below?

In the observed sample of public reviewer profiles with a visible country, the leading shares are Brazil (100%). The separate directional player-region model assigns its leading shares to Brazil (53.5%), United States (8.4%), China (7.9%). The directional follower-region model assigns its leading shares to Brazil (65%), United States (7%), China (6.6%). The directional wishlist-region model assigns its leading shares to Brazil (42.2%), United States (10.5%), China (9.9%). Only the reviewer view is based on observed public profile countries; the other percentages are modeled relative weights, not verified account locations or country-level user counts.

What does the Steam review footprint look like for The Menace Below?

The Menace Below currently sits at 65% positive across 17 Steam reviews tracked by SteamPulse, including 11 positive reviews and 6 negative reviews. Steam labels the current review summary as Mixed.

How much follower and Twitch attention does The Menace Below have?

The Menace Below currently has about 34 tracked Steam followers as of 27 January 2026 - 00:00:00 UTC. SteamPulse is not treating the current Twitch number as authoritative because the Twitch category for this app is not resolved yet or the Twitch API credentials are unavailable.

What is the current Steam price for The Menace Below?

The Menace Below is currently listed as free to play on Steam, so there is no paid entry price to compare against an older baseline. SteamPulse still keeps tracking store state, discount fields, and future pricing changes in case that status changes later.

Reviews, pricing, and metadata

Review summary

Mixed

65% positive, 11 positive, 6 negative

Price and discount

Free to play

Platforms

Windows

Categories

Single-player, Family Sharing

Achievements

Not available

Platform releases

Steam 18 December 2025

DLC and packages

The Menace Below SoundtrackSoundtrack from the video game 'The Menace Below', plus one bonus trackmusic #4128380$8.99

System requirements

Minimum requirements

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: 1600 Mhz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 128 MB Storage: 434 MB available space

Recommended requirements

Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

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