Full game metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 906120 |
| Live current players | 0 |
| SteamPulse tracked peak | 4 |
| Live count (today's peak floor) | 0 |
| Price | $6.99 |
| Free to play | No |
| Discount | 0% |
| Original price USD | $6.99 |
| Current price USD | $6.99 |
| Release date | Dec 21, 2018 |
| Developer | Llamasoft Ltd. |
| Publisher | Llamasoft Ltd. |
| Owners estimated | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate minimum | 20,000 |
| SteamSpy owner estimate maximum | 50,000 |
| Review type | Very Positive |
| Positive review percent | 95% |
| Positive reviews | 244 |
| Negative reviews | 14 |
| Total reviews | 258 |
| Steam recommendations | 242 |
| Achievements | 22 |
| Average playtime forever | Not available |
| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | No |
| Linux support | No |
| Parent game | Not available |
| Store URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/906120/ |
Short description
POLYBIUS is a fast, trippy tunnel shooter playable on a normal screen or in VR. 50 levels of blissful trance shooting action are set to a blistering soundtrack. The PS4 version was EDGE Magazine
About this game
POLYBIUS is a fast, trippy tunnel shooter playable on a normal screen or in VR for the best effect. It features 50 levels of blissful trance shooting action set to a blistering soundtrack. The PS4 version was EDGE Magazine's VR GOTY in 2017, and the PC version of the game was even used as the basis for a NIN music video. So put on your trance trousers, bust out the Oculus if you have one, and strap in for a euphoric ride. Blast, boost and fly through 50 geometrical environments. Hit the boost gates to increase your speed. How fast dare you go? More speed means more points but also more danger! Pick up powerup pills along the way to increase your firepower, become invincible, launch yourself to stratospheric speeds, even slow down time. POLYBIUS is designed to bring you quickly to a euphoric flow state, and to keep you there the whole time you are playing. There are no bosses to spike your progress, and the game will never make you redo sections - progress made is progress kept, always, even if you lose a life. We want you to come out of every game of Polybius, whether or not you've beaten your highscore, smiling and happy because you've enjoyed the act of playing so much. Drop in for a quick blast or settle in for a long trip with Llamasoft's tried and true arcade game modes: Pure (start from the beginning and see how far you can get), Endurance (start from the beginning with a fixed number of lives, no extras are awarded during Endurance games), or Normal. In a Normal Mode game, you can choose to restart from any level you have previously arrived at. Our Restart Best system starts you off with the best-ever lives and score that you've had at that point in any game previously. Over time you can dip in and improve the individual Restart Best stats for any of the levels and gradually build a platform for achieving better and better high scores. The inspiration for POLYBIUS was an old urban legend about a strange, abstract, psychedelic arcade game that was supposedly released for a brief time in the 1980s. According to the legend people who played the game experienced strange and rather unpleasant psychological reactions after becoming addicted to it. There was ta…
Supported languages
English