Photonic Distress overview

Overview

Photonic Distress comes from GRIP420 and is published by GRIP420. It arrived on Steam on Aug 3, 2018, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, 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

Photonic Distress's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 4 October 2026 - 04:17:42 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 93% positive across 56 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Photonic Distress is available in 1 languages including:

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

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Photonic Distress has sold up to 2,122 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $16,017. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Photonic Distress overview details

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

Steam Store description

Photonic Distress (or PD for short) is a blend of First/Third Person puzzler/platformer with a unique twist. You wake up in an internal representation of your conscience where your goal is to collect 100 memory fragments throughout increasingly complicated and increasing in size procedurally generated levels, or dreams. These levels are illuminated on easy and medium difficulties but dark on hard and impossible ones! You have a Photon gun that you can use to light your way up and fight enemies as you go through these levels. Initially this is only in form of colorful balls, or photons, that your shoot from your gun but ass you collect fragments, the upgrades will become available for you, such as a flashlight attachment, a scan grenade - that shows an outline of the world around you and highlights points of interest, as well as spawning/revealing unspawned/hidden enemies and killing the ones that are spawned. Once you collect 100 fragments the final room will open where you can go to end the game. To provide maximum replayability, level generation is based of a Pseudo Random Number Generator. The seed you choose or randomly generate when starting a new game will dictate how your levels look, what they are made of, how many fragments you will find in each level and etc. This means that you can complete the game on various difficulties for the same seed, or various seeds for the same difficulty and every time it will look different. PD features 4 difficulties: Easy, Medium, Hard and Impossible. Based on your chosen difficulty your gameplay may be quite relaxing as you quickl…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Photonic Distress is listed as a game with $9.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 4 October 2026 - 04:17:42 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 93% positive reviews.

Overview tags

ActionAdventureIndieCasualRelaxingProcedural GenerationBeautifulExperimentalFirst-PersonThird-Person Shooter

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