- 53/100
- Players3 ratings
- 65/100
- Critics2 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic10 critic reviews
- 48/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 32/100
- GameFAQsTough
- 3.28/5
- Player reviews
- 70% positive585 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$9.99
Where to get it
2014 · Digerati · Adventure · First-person shooter
Paranautical Activity
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky.
- Released
- 20 October 2014
- Platforms
- LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation VitaWii UWindowsXbox OnemacOS
- Genres
- AdventureFirst-person shooterRole-playingShooter
- Developers
- Digerati
- Publishers
- Digerati
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- First person
- Themes
- ActionHorror
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- CERO BESRB TPEGI 16
- Languages
- English
- Time to beat
- 4hmain story19hcompletionist
About
Paranautical Activity is a first-person shooter video game developed by American indie studio Code Avarice, and later by Digerati. It was released for Microsoft Windows in a beta form in February 2013, and after completing the Early Access program on Steam, was fully released on October 20, 2014.
The game struggled with Valve's Steam service. Valve initially refused to allow it on its Greenlight system while the developer was in talks with another publisher, and later pulled it from Steam after its lead developer, Mike Maulbeck, threatened Valve's CEO, Gabe Newell, on social media. The game's development was transferred to a new studio, Digerati, and re-released on Steam under a "Deluxe Atonement" version that included new content.
Players say
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Paranautical Activity is a first-person shooter that uses procedural dungeon generation and permadeath, features common in roguelikes. The various levels in the game are based around a room structure similar to the dungeons of The Binding of Isaac, which include random enemy generation, mini-boss rooms which give items, shops and treasure rooms where players can buy health, armor and better weapons. Killed monsters drop health and in-game money to be used in shops. Each level features a boss battle that must be fought before the player can move on to the next level.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- Digerati Horror Bundle
- Editions
- Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition
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