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Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition
Developer Code Avarice
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… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
177 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
56
Mixed
97 positive · 77 negative
95% range 48–63%
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| Steam reviews | 97 | 77 | 0 |
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3 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
957 of 1,399 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 177 · most liked firstThis game is not finished. This game does not have mostly positive reviews. This game is abandoned and it is a fact, there has been no dev interaction. No dev updates for years. The only potential updates you will see is this game added to a Humble Bundle or other content sharing service and put on sale for a quick cashgrab. Code Avarice SOLD the game to another company after they got BANNED from Steam. This game was banned from Steam because one of the Code Avarice devs made a vield death…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have very mixed feelings about Paranautical Activity. Almost every positive about the game is countered with a negative, yet I'd still recommend it to players who are really into roguelites and mid-90's first-person shooters (and don't mind a game that looks and sounds like crap, if I'm being honest). They could get a few hours of genuine fun out of it, and maybe even find it addicting, like I have. However, if you're not totally in love with both of those genres, the game's flaws will…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will now prepare to list 10 comparable games that are better than Paranautical Activity: Barony, BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE, Gunfire Reborn, Heavy Bullets, Immortal Redneck, Post Void, Tower of Guns, Void Bastards, Ziggurat, Ziggurat 2. Any of these are almost certain to give you a better experience, and the developers won't threaten your life.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I generally have two rules about playing games. Rule number one is that if the first 40 minutes are filled with me wanting to do anything else with my time, I don't continue. Rule number two is that I don't like spending money on games that aren't finished. Paranautical Activity met both rules. This game is an ancient relic from a time when the indie world was dominated by people who wanted to be the next Spelunky or Binding Of Isaac. Compared to both its classic and modern contemporaries, it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It may not be the best game, and the previous devs may not have been the best at not issuing death threats, but I still enjoy it and have fun passing the time with it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →that's a toy of a boss from Paranautical Activity, i don't think the designs have aged particularly well but i think i did a good job of capturing a voxel art style without using any voxels
unlabelledView post →I had never played Atonement Edition and boy this game really shows how much better the average indie game has gotten over the years. Yeah it's not unplayable but Paranautical Activity has maybe the worst menus I've ever seen, is ugly as hell, and quickly gets repetitive. And I mean FAST. Environment design is almost completely absent and this feels like a product of the time when "lol random" was peak internet comedy. I wish I hadn't played this again so I left it with fonder memories. Play…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish this game had been a success, because it showed a lot of promise back when I bought it as a wee babby, but the developer really flushed any chance this game had of being good. The best part is the music, so check out the OST on YouTube, and if there's a way to send money to MACAskill do that instead of buying this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feels more like a gamejam game, not something that you'd actually charge people for.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i know the story about dev and gaben ⣼⡻⠕⠅⠁⣀⣤⣤⣄⣀⠈⠄⠁⠄⠁⣿⡮⠄⠁⠄⠄⡠⠶⠶⠦⡀⠈⣽⡢ ⣿⣧⠄⠁⠄⠔⠒⠭⠭⠥⠥⠓⠄⢀⣴⣿⣿⡄⠁⠠⣤⠉⠉⣭⠝⠈⢐⣽⣕ ⣿⣷⡢⢄⡰⡢⡙⠄⠠⠛⠁⢀⢔⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣄⡈⠁⠈⠁⠉⡹⣽⣿⣷ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣭⡭⠔⣠⣪⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣵⡒⠫⠿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣛⣥⣶⣿⠟⢁⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡙⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡫⠁⢀⠑⠓⠫⢝⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⡻⠊⢉⣄⠈⠪⡫⢿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⠁⣰⣿⣿⣢⢤⣀⡀⠈⠉⠉⢀⠠⠪⢝⡻⣷⡀⠊⡪⡻⣿ ⡫⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⡊⢠⣿⣿⡫⠚⣊⣡⠶⢦⣤⣤⠶⠞⡛⠳⣌⠫⡻⡀⠈⡺⢿ ⠪⡪⡫⢟⡿⣕⠁⡫⠝⠊⡴⠋⠁⠁⠐⠁⠂⠈⠐⠈⠈⠐⠐⠳⠄⠹⣇⠪⡻ ⠄⠁⠊⠕⡪⢕⢀⠞⠁⠄⣁⢀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣠⣀⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⡆⠄⠆⢷⠕⡪ ⣄⠄⠁⠄⠁⠄⡎⠄⠁⢬⣮⣕⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡫⡪⡵⠄⠁⠄⠈ ⣿⣄⠁⠄⠁⠄⡣⠄⠁⣷⣯⣵⣢⠄⠄⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣠⣬⣟⡕⠄⠁⢀⣿
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actual review: P good, but I wouldn't recommend supporting whoever gets money from this game now and that's what the rest of my review is going to be about. Why you shouldn't buy this: This game was halted in development after it was removed from steam. The Deluxe atonement part of the title refers to that. One of the two main devs for this game, the one responsible for coding if I'm not mistaken, made a post intended to express his frustration with how steam handles update pushing, in this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought this game when I was younger and naiive, thinking that the dev's promise of co-op would be reasonable. Devs like this are why Early Access has such a bad rep. Without co-op, this game is boring as hell to me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The idea of Paranautical Activity is rather cool, but this game gets boring really fast. It's nothing like other rogue-like games, it doesn't make you want to play more and get better, you just don't feel like throwing yourself and spend many hours playing it. You just run this game once, play few time and then forget forever that something like that existed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am 95% sure, the game is broken. Everything about this feels like an early demo, something that you would show to friends and family, to prove that you didn't waste the last year of your life. But you did.... Ah where to start. No tutorial of any kind, no controls menu, no context, no story, poor hit detection, poor room design, terrible UI, sometimes outright missing UI, bugged weapons, bugged gameplay. The music is okay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For a game where movement is this important, the developers sure sucked at making you able to move at all. Quickly strafing is impossible, because there you have to accelerate to each side you want to strafe to. So you are left with two movement options: either you keep running in the same direction, which WILL get you killed, because the enemies shooting at you are too fast. Or you jump. So, the game is running in circles and jumping, while trying to remain aware of your environment in a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very slipery and very repetitive all the rooms look exactly the same and also its just so freaking dark you can barley see whats going on also its almost impossible to figure out what is hitting you seriously would not reccomend this game ive heard alot of people have performence issuse with it to.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game gets better after the 2000 hour mark. Edit: Its kinda boring after 3k
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game, since roguelike shooters are kind of a hard thing to get right. Unfortunately, it's hard to see, hard to aim, and just kinda feels crappy to play, to be blunt. There are some good ideas here, but I don't feel like the dev cares much for how this looks, since it's been ported, but not fixed in a couple years now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →8/10 game 15/10 PR team Threatening to kill Gaben was probably the best thing to happen to this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →marginally worse than a death threat. No wait: that's trite. Let's be proper about this. It genuinely amazes me that the dev of a buggy chunk of voxelated turd like this really thought they were such a badboi that they could threaten Gaben. It's just as staggering that anyone considered this worthwhile enough to let it come back to steam. Here's my experience: Game starts. Music is blatantly made from a "DIY Dubstep pack of loops and samples" (my old job used to be designing cover art for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bland weapons and enemies with crap animation. Dark, boring, square arenas on a simplistic grid. Shooting doesn't feel good. Killing doesn't feel good. Moving doesn't feel good. 'nuff said.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was one of my first few PC games, I thought it was amazing and for it's time it was good, but I think there's a lot of better improved polished titles out there (where the creator didn't threaten steam) you could pick up.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game would be fun if the dark room levels weren't completely pitch black...do NOT buy at full price if this looks appealing to you this isn't a lolgitgudfgt situation, it's just stupid and not at all fun or interesting also telling me the key bindings are in the launcher because you're too lazy to put a little more effort into your unity game is just amazingly dumb...dev's: please don't do this, at least show the default controls in an image or on a wall texture or something in-game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Paranautical Activity was like one of first roguelite FPSes, from back when roguelike was still a novel thing, and looking back, it aged badly. Hell, if what chances are it's more known as the game taken down for it's dev cursing at and threatening Gabe Newell on social media, resulting in the title being taken off Steam for some time, than it's actual merits. Now, first thing first, as far as unappealing blocky visual styles go, this game takes the cake with really rough pseudo-voxel enemy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe my brain is too old, and my hands too arthritic, but I can't get into this. Paranautical Activity is a procedurally generated throwback to late 90's twitch shooters, where you're expected to be spamming jump constantly. Back then, jump dodging in a shooter was necessary to be competitive against online human players, but here it's the core gameplay mechanic, and even twenty years ago, I wasn't into it. The game's a little too random. The kitchen sink vibe with weapons, power-ups, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's an interesting take on the rogue like dungeon crawler, but it too repetitive to be any good unless you really love the grind
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Appears kinda blocky at surface, but it's fun little arena shooter with random generated levels, however same bosses and enemy patterns may become boring after a while. It's one of those games where you run in circles shooting bad guys. On plus side there are many different weapons and dubstep music is kinda catchy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →well... i dont know what to say. im dissapointed and still i like the way this game is made. run thru different rooms gather different weapons, the door shut behind you until you killed the opponents and after you killed them you reach the next room. all in nice colors and nicely made BUT... the weapon handling is very swampy and could be a lot better. i dont know.. for the little money its ok and it doesnt hurt that much that its not so good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of those humble bundle 1 dollar games(Humble Roguelike Weekly Sale). I hoped it would be a semi decent rogue-like. Its basically press "S" and shoot games. No depth or anything. Shooting isn't even satisfying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Showed promise but is just too cheap by spamming cheap, difficult to avoid attacks at every turn to be fair or fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the worst things I've ever seen on steam or in my life period. It's almost as bad as Postal 2. It feels like someone took a bad atari 2600 game and somehow made it into 3D. There are no sound effects hardly at all besides when you fire and maybe one or two other things but that's it. Only a few weapons have sound effects anyway. Enemies have none, the environment has none. The weapons in the game, all of them, are just god awful horrible buttgarbage. The music is about ten times louder…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one of those ♥♥♥♥ random bundle keys, don't know why i purchased it. just gonna hide it in my library and forget about it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed this game and loved the soundtrack.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Paranautical Activity!! (A heavily slept on indie fps rogue like that's very fun imo)
unlabelledView post →The game is intriguing and plays a bit like HL1/Q3 but with character classes. So, this could be fun. However, it asks for too much and delivers too little. I simply cannot force myself to master this game and do countless runs when everything feels like it's from yesteryear.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this for $1.50 thats about what I'd pay for its. This is a fun but very dated and unbalanced game. There are a lot of mechanics that are downright frustrating and a lot of weapons that are complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. But on the flipside there are a couple items that are totally broken and fun to exploit. I won on my third run thanks to a broken item combination, and the runs are quite long (7 floors/bosses) so I got to see a lot of the game. I think this game is something fun to play over one…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandonware after the original devs got kicked off the platform, then formed some sort of ghostwriter-style thing to keep the game on steam.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"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" how about you eat my ass and finish a game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gripes: * Menu's are very unpolished static Images with what is white slimey text which is very suggestive. * Enemies are thematically random. No thought was put into the enemies you're facing. eg. Sharks Swimming through Metal, Ninja's, Midget Wizards, Demons, Flying Rocket Turtles. * Maps are very samey the more you play with no variation to area's (Everything is metal boxes) Nices: Unlockables through Acheivements slowly feeding more content (Bosses, Guns, Buffs\Debuffs) All in All: There…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty fun for a this type of game but u will die alot
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unappealing graphics, cheap boring interface and gameplay. But that is just my opinion.... also: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/renatocf/recommended/307090/] My Fancy Skulls Review
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad game. Not worth any money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great concept, great items, amazing movement mechanics. TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE HITBOXES TERRIBLE…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only play this if you got this free. Not on sale, not on bundles. Do not spend a single coin on this mess
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is good. Ghost is bad.. Slot machine is takin ma money.... Sounds like a country song. Definitely worth it on sale. do iiiiiit.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This trainwreck has the audacity to compare itself with Doom, Quake, Binding Of Isaac and Spelunky, give me a break.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only thing I knew about this game is that its developer had some problems with Gaben. After I checked this pixel mess, I can tell it totally wasn't worth. Completely unplayable and freezes for a few seconds when you die, like it's loading death screen... If I'd want a mindless shooter, I'd go pick Doom from '93.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are too many good roguelites on steam for the same price or cheaper to warrant playing this boring, vapid, shallow, low effort game. Go buy Tower of guns, Ziggurat, Barony, or really any other first person roguelite, and you'll probably have more fun. I may have changed my mind if I had played more, but I won't because I returned it, because if the first 100 minutes are trash, it's probably trash.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I remember I got this game back when I used tremoir games or something like that waaaay back ago... I must say... I should have been better wait with those coins I win... This game is just terrible. 1) Weapon variety is TERRIBLE. 2) Music is just your average dubstep sh*t. 3) Everything on the game is just plain and boring. 4) Devs seem to already gone, game is stupidly unoptimized (How can a GT1030+i5-2400 take that much to load the first time the game!?) 5) GAME IS NOT "MOSTLY POSITIVE" You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My comfort game recently has been Paranautical Activity. Fun little roguelike FPS, but they need to tweak a few things for sure
unlabelledView post →Paranautical RNG Madness ! Paranautical Activity is a not so bad FPS/Roguelike hybrid from 2013. This game combines the classic FPS formula from the 90s with some difficulty and total randomness of more modern rogulikes to a rather mixed but still somewhat decent results. Did i have fun with this game ? Yes , i did. Was it frustrating most of the time ? Yes , it was. Did i like the game overall ? Yes , i did. So lets start with the positives , shall we ? The core gameplay in this game is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For a nearly decade old roguelike, it's pretty fun. As many have said, the genre has already been improved upon significantly since launch, but this game stands out thanks to its voxel aesthetic, plus it has some really cool secrets. Dev screwed themselves by sending death threats to Gabe Newell, and imo that should not be overlooked but looking at the game for what it is, it's a pretty fun time for 10 bucks.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Too much is technically wrong with this for it to be fun and it fails to properly implement many features from the games it's trying to ape.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good solid rouge-like. OST slaps too, very fitting for the gameplay
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are many better roguelikes than this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate first-person shooters, but this one is damn fun, despite it and its developer's issues
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think most of the enjoyment you'll get out of this game will come from the movement/shooting you'd expect from an arena shooter, which I think holds quite well into the roguelike environment that Paranautical Activity created. Being able to control your character is key, evading danger is the best way to stay alive and it makes for really exciting gameplay, especially with the variety of enemy types and attacks. Along your run you pickup new items or weapons that can change the way your run…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →eeehh... if you can get this game for like 2 dollars its a good buy. Its alright, kind of fun to see all the power-ups. I find the game to lack variety to continue playing for long after I beat it the first time. I was not a part of the kick starter. There is very little connection to all the concept and cover art you see in the game.. it looks like theres some kind of story with characters.. but none of that is made clear to the player.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What is love? Baby don't hurt me... don't hurt me... no more.
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