
CAN YOU SAVE THE SCIENTISTS ON APOXUS PRIME?PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate is a twin-stick shooter with equal elements of action and puzzle solving.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.14/day in the week to Aug 26 → 0.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $9.99 | 218reviews | 87% | — | $51.7K |
| $14.99 | 20.1Kratings | 83% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
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Reviews
Themes across 49 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Excellent 2D top-down physics-based puzzle-shooter. BACKSTORY - the original PixelJunk Shooter was released for the PS3, then the PC. It's available on Steam. It's a fairly short game. Enjoyable and innovative, but with some notable quality of life problems. - PixelJunk Shooter 2 was released for the PS4 and Vita. It's *not* available on Steam. - this Ultimate edition was first released on the PS4, then the PC. It combines Shooter 1 & 2 into one game, along with much improved visuals and quality of life doodads. SHOULD I BUY PIXELJUNK SHOOTER 1? No, there's no point. Not only does this package have far more content, but it's a much greater challenge, and has more creature comforts. And if you prefer Shooter 1's flat look, Ultimate lets you switch to the original art. PROBLEMS - the game's age is showing. Fullscreen support is broken, and the game will only render at your native resolution. So, if you have a slow machine and play on a 4K screen, well, you're going to be playing at 4K. - an achievement (Cave of Wonder) is borked, so no 100% for you unless you go all Rain Man. - there are multiplayer achievements. Must be nice to have friends. - the music -- Google informs me that it is "triphop" -- cuts in and out, breaks up. Long-standing problem, never fixed. GAMEPLAY Despite the years, there have been very few 2D shooters as innovative and proficient as this. The fluid simulation is a standout, and drives the innovation in the level design and gameplay. The game starts off pretty casually: the original Shooter 1 levels don't pose too much of a challenge, and it's more of puzzle game than a shooter. But the Shooter 2 content introduces some formidable boss fights, and even descends in to bullet hell for a short while. This is a long game. It has well over 100 levels/puzzles, and will probably take you over 30 hours to 100%. (If the achievement pops for you, that is.) There's a lot of value here. Bonus points for homages to Namco and Konami. VERDICT This is a must have game for any kind of classic shooter fan. Get it.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese
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Loved this game as a child and still enjoy it, nice game to play with friends
I, like some others who have this game on steam, have had this before on the ps3, and it's safe to say that this is indeed the ultimate version you can get of the two games. Not only are both shooter 1 and two in this game, it's more expanded compared to Ps4's ultimate edition. The only issues I can say about this game is unfortunate lack of online multiplayer as I'm probably the very few people who recently found out about this game on steam in the grand 2026. The other issue would be the music, which is not implement incorrectly despite being a banger soundtrack. Nevertheless it's not that big of an issue.
This game is an absolute blast! I got 100% in this game on my PSVita! I like how this version looks! It's a big improvement over the classic visuals imo. However it's really hard to look past this game's music bug. Like, this game's adaptive music is just completely borked on PC for some reason, and it doesn't look like anyone has made a fix for it. Given how old this game is, I've kinda given up hope that it'll ever be fixed, even by the community. But I'll still give this game a thumbs up! Just with the caveat that you should probably buy it on another platform without the music bug.
I really enjoyed the first and second Pixeljunk Shooter on PS3 and Ultimate on PS4. It's nice to now also have Ultimate on PC, but the music bug remains just like the PC port of the first Shooter, [b]plus[/b] there is glitching around the fluids when using the classic graphics style. The classic textures also aren't the same as the original textures the two games had on PS3. I still recommend Ultimate because it's the same price as buying only the first game on Steam.
Inoffensively average.
Good fun. Originally played it on the PS3, still decent. Haven't finished part 2 as felt a worse experience, but anyhow - part 1 was good.
I played through PixelJunk Shooter 1 & 2 back when it first released many years ago. Great collection to replay it on Steam soon!
Bundling together two bubbly twin stick shooters into an single package, PJSU is an absolute recommend. Zipping through narrow caverns while dodging alien fire and magma is smooth and responsive, and collecting hidden treasure while uncovering hidden zones never gets old. Aside from some of the bosses overstaying their welcome, Ultimate is the best way to play this excellent little pair of games.
https://youtu.be/DQfHncAbWgk Unsurprisingly the game that was good before continues to be good when combined with the sequel to be larger.
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