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Peripeteia
Developer Ninth Exodus
Peripeteia is an upcoming indie immersive sim developed by independent, Polish game studio, Ninth Exodus. The player controls Marie, a superhuman cyborg with amnesia, looking for a secret bunker in a post-Soviet cyberpunk Poland. It was released into Steam Early Access on 21 February 2025. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
429 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
202 positive · 88 negative
95% range 64–75%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 202 | 88 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 42 | 12 | 70 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,922 of 2,306 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
68% recommend · 177 yes, 85 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 262 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (3,025 of 3,513 positive).
Players praise the game's immersive atmosphere, art direction, and authentic Eastern European setting. [1][2][3][4] Many note the game is janky, buggy, and rough around the edges, especially in early access. [5][6][7][8] Some reviewers express concerns about the developer's alleged transphobia and a toxic community. [9][10][11][12]
Liked
Representative posts
- [9]
A janky mess that could be redeemed by having anything other than a trashy discord community & shared attitude by the devs toward gross queer people like me. I bought this game for cyberpunk anime girls and breakcore. not for this ♥♥♥♥. There are aspects of this game that while jank/imperfect were really fun to experience and would be super endearing if not for how the devs are. There are allegations of the devs …
- [20]
Completely setting aside outside factors. (because lets be completely real the average person couldn't care less about an immature developer and a toxic discord community) Peripeteia is a pretty promising proof of concept that falls flat on its face when it comes to standing out on its own. It doesn't do anything exceedingly good and certainly not better than any of the games inspiring it. $25 united states dollars …
- [1]
I usually don't write reviews but the game appears to be going through a negative reviewbomb and I would like to do my part in going against this notion because I feel it to be undeserved. This is a good game. An unpolished, partially messy fun game. I received the game in Digiphile-bundle and only played for a couple of hours but so far it's been an immersive and rich playground. It's organized into levels where …
- [2]
This game is very good at representing an eastern european society during very hard times. There are many games about slavs often pivoting around slavic mythology but this game is unique. Developers made a game about people rebuilding a society after a cataclysm inside post-WW2 cyberpunk setting. There is a clear bias towards Poland but you are free to side against them. You get a lot of freedom in this game. Maybe …
- [3]
Fun and immersive game, especially if you are from Eastern Europe and you grew up in the 80s or 90s.
Summarised from 34 of the 372 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Peripeteia talk about immaculate vibes and art direction; those who didn't talk about very janky and buggy gameplay. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
PC Gamer's Joshua Wolens said that Peripeteia "feels a little like the beautiful mutant hybrid of Stalker and Deus Ex," owing to its immersive sim roots. PCGamesN's Oisin Kuhnke said "it also feels like the original Thief, especially given its themes of authoritarian government, and levels built around verticality." Eurogamer's Lewis Gordan, while criticizing Peripeteia for its bugs and poor enemy AI, praised that "the moments this game conjures as you navigate the various strata of its crumbling, vertiginous megacity, stumbling across sights capable of filling you simultaneously with dread and awe are superbly powerful." In February 2025, RPGFan's Ben Love elaborated on the lacking AI in…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 429 · most liked firstA janky mess that could be redeemed by having anything other than a trashy discord community & shared attitude by the devs toward gross queer people like me. I bought this game for cyberpunk anime girls and breakcore. not for this ♥♥♥♥. There are aspects of this game that while jank/imperfect were really fun to experience and would be super endearing if not for how the devs are. There are allegations of the devs doxxing ppl if you look in the comments of this review. I don't know if they are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have found a new video game to play called PERIPETEIA. It's only available for the personal computer, and you must have a strong constitution in order to play it, but, it has lots of very long hallways that don't go anywhere, and many boring elevator rides that last 30+ seconds. Try it.
negative · AI labelView post →Really solid Deus Ex style immersive sim that has unfortunately been effectively abandoned* (Edit: since this review was first posted the game has gotten a very solid update and if Steam offered it I would change my review to mixed instead of negative, details below. The rest of this review with the exception of these edits at the bottom will be unchanged until 1.0 releases). There hasn't been new content added since September 28th 2025, and that new content was just UI changes, a button for an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's funny/sad that there's about a 50/50 split on responses to this mess. Half are 'What the hell, I just assumed Peripeteia was by trans lesbians' and the other half are 'I knew it, the game was made by chan edgelords'. And the game gives off both signals which, honestly, implies the former to me
neutral · AI labelView post →dead game. hasn't received any meaningful updates since early access release. the dedicated game discord has been rebrandet into a publisher discord and the dev is in prison since 3 months, lmao edit1 19.12.25: the gopniks over at the discord found this review and harass me now, what a brilliant community. edit2 26.12.25: deleted 20+ comments on this review since they were harassment aswell, a community that keeps on giving lol
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Small #Peripeteia doodle Been enjoying my time with the game
positive · AI labelView post →Marie from Peripeteia! 🚬 Been hyped for this game for years, and I'm very glad it's finally out in Early Access, definitely check it out if you like ambitious European indie games!
positive · AI labelView post →Let me preface this by stating that I did love this game, and recommended it highly to my friends. I enjoyed the gameplay, worldbuilding, and the surreal gritty cyberpunk aesthetic it has. I've played it quite a bit, as you can see, and have gushed about it to others. Unfortunately, I can no longer in good conscience recommend it, and have taken the step to explicitly recommend against it, given who benefits from the sales, the kind of community the developers have made, and the great harm that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game that I love dearly, but the dev has openly espoused transphobic rhetoric and baselessly flung hate at other indie games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing it a lot this past week and still can't get Peripeteia out of my head. I expect very weird reactions to it when it releases, because it is, for many, the opposite of a good videogame. The developers know this. They've described the demo as a filter to keep those people from buying it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Peripeteia is the game I didn't know I needed.
positive · AI labelView post →I really loved what was created here. Everything about it catered to what I love about the Cyberpunk and Immersive Sim Genre. And its' unique artstyle was the most captivating part. But as well as anywhere else- I am refusing to support a dev that is clearly this full of hate and hates people like me for simply existing and engaging in contemporary media. Sorry, but your money is better worth putting either in the time to create a game yourself or buy something else. I sadly can't refund it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Completely setting aside outside factors. (because lets be completely real the average person couldn't care less about an immature developer and a toxic discord community) Peripeteia is a pretty promising proof of concept that falls flat on its face when it comes to standing out on its own. It doesn't do anything exceedingly good and certainly not better than any of the games inspiring it. $25 united states dollars is also absurdly steep for something that probably won't be "finished" for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got this for the interesting style and world. I enjoyed the inventory management, augment system, and shooting mechanics. But the level design is pretty bad, with massive areas with no real purpose other than to make you run more, and elevators that take minutes to reach a floor because a building is unnecessarily massive. As well as baffling decisions (Like the first mission has a train station that is supposedly owned/controlled by a group, but their headquarters has no connection to it nor…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really really wanted to like this game. The aesthetics are great, the music is suiting and there's a clear passion put into some small details in this world. There's a lot to like and some real genuine creativity here. But my god it's frustrating. Bugs are everywhere, the maps are pointlessly big with nothing to find when you explore. A lot of this game's strengths end up being it's weaknesses, what's the point of a character that can use abilities with no chance to use them due to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On the topic of "don't play bad games out of contrarianism" I remember that when we all found out Peripeteia was made by a transphobic chudling that I saw a dozen people on the TL go "ah! well! now that I know the dev sucks, I'm not gonna put up with how bad that game was the whole time"
neutral · AI labelView post →Id initially left a shorter review, saying, "It is a good skeleton of a game that could have been, but wont be, because it was abandoned by the developers after one of them mentally broke down over Signalis fan-art." in response to a major lapse in game updates after some of the most jaw-dropping internet theatrics a dev could unleash on a public forum, enflamed by braindead "fans" whose interest began and ended with the beautiful screenshots on the Store Page and were never going to buy the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →had a fun time despite some janky gameplay and confusing storytelling, but since discovering that the dev spends their time badmouthing other games and devs for being queer makes it impossible for me to recommend this or to revisit for future updates. save your money and your time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly liked what I've played of it (Got a bit stuck on the school level due to a lack of ability to save at all in that level) But after learning of Dwyer (also known by Orouboros or Snaketicus)'s opinion on fans of other indie darlings that use gritty "low tech" graphical styles (who just so happen to be of a certain marginalized community currently being attacked in a useless culture war) I cannot recommend supporting the team making this game even if the other 2 people don't share those…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →wow that's the first time I've seen Wario64 redact a game deal post This was about Peripeteia, if you're curious.
neutral · AI labelView post →Well, some time has passed, and now the Steam forum for Peripeteia is filling up with channers calling the devs 'based' for standing up to... trans people. The 'I wasn't going to buy this game until I heard the devs were bigots' crew. Yeah, they've earned themselves that audience for sure now.
neutral · AI labelView post →Despite the promising concept, it is not well executed and doesn't have good intentions backing it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#Peripeteia fanart, don't mess with Marie. Amazing game, give the demo a try if you like S.T.A.L.K.E.R, or just want to play the coolest cyberpunk game out there ; )
positive · AI labelView post →not a big fan of transphobes + incomplete game like it's so far from being playable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not get fooled by the game's visuals and vibe. It is not a pleasurable experience right now. I bought this game because of the retro graphics, cute girl and Poland. I really wanted to love this game, it's a shame it's such wasted potential. I completed the first level and refunded the game after a few days. The game is extremely buggy. Friendly NPC who was just helping me out started to shoot at me after I hanged around for too long. The maps are huge and empty, there's barely anything to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a huge discount, only half finished, and likely to pretty janky even when complete, but Peripeteia is one of the most compelling games I've played this year. A vastly ambitious immersive sim set in a world that's simultaneously post-soviet-collapse Poland and also a vast brutalist megastructure
positive · AI labelView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥ devs with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ homophobic views, go spend your money elsewhere
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man I really wish this game was better. There's so much potential here. Unfortunately between the truly baffling design choices and game-breaking bugs EVERYWHERE, it's impossible to recommend in its current state. I liked it, but was totally fed up with the issues by the end of the experience.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Today Peripeteia is releasing in EA, finally :D To everyone who didnt try it yet, i recommend checking out the demo and buying the game if you like it :> And to @90sgraphics.bsky.social i wish a successful release ^^ you have made a wonderful game
positive · AI labelView post →I *want* to like Peripeteia. It has so many elements I appreciate - the freedom of movement, the brushing on philosophical topics in the story, the weird-lady protagonist, the gun systems that are just in-depth enough to scratch my itch for that sort of thing, atmosphere oozes out of every pore and it all has a pretty clear vision... *But.* *But* - That's the word with Peripeteia. I know some of these things I'm about to gripe about were deliberate choices, *but*... They still detract from the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its come out that one of the devs is hella transphobic/queerphobic conspiracy nutjob. wild considering if you asked me i would assume this game was made by a transbian. maybe that explains why it was so buggy that it wasnt. wish i could get my money back.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Imagine making a game that looks like Peripeteia and somehow being transphobic. Even if they weren't transphobic, the random dig against Signalis and it's community comes off as petty and unprofessional imo
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is one emotional and unique piece of art- at least, it would be if it wasn't so buggy and unpolished. Don't buy it until it is actually finished, and don't engage with this cesspit of a community. One of the developers kicked me from the official discord after drawing gay fanart.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Superficially queer-coded game that's actually chud-coded
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Peripeteia has an incredible atmosphere, a great soundtrack and offers a lot as far as immersive sims go. I loved the game but I just can't recommend it to anyone in its current state. The story is disjointed, the characters are forgettable and the "jank" of the game can't be overlooked. Exploration often felt more punishing than rewarding due to the unnecessarily massive scale of certain levels. However I found myself enjoying so much that this game had to offer, I loved the general…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →as much as I wanna like this game - it is still significantly underdeveloped, down to some of the most basic features. the thing is – it isn't hard to deal with early access state, but what suffers most here is the "immersion" that the game emphasizes on, among other things. the immersive sim just can't immerse you properly when you can see some of it's gameplay and narrative elements barely hold together. the journal entries update inconsistently. some do, some don't. sometimes the order is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I usually don't write reviews but the game appears to be going through a negative reviewbomb and I would like to do my part in going against this notion because I feel it to be undeserved. This is a good game. An unpolished, partially messy fun game. I received the game in Digiphile-bundle and only played for a couple of hours but so far it's been an immersive and rich playground. It's organized into levels where each one offers a new map to explore. There are multiple clear-conditions but I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool game! Shame the WRITER and LEVEL DESIGNER is a weird chud. Probably gonna avoid recommending this to anyone until that guy gets removed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How are you gonna be transphobic and make a cyberpunk game that's like trying to sell mother's day cards to orphans.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →even transphobes can make a good game, regret ever supporting this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Edit: From what I hear, Ouroboros crashed out over some Signalis fan art and had a full melt down. He spent too much time malding over trans people expressing themselves than actually working on this game. I'll keep the negative review for now, but I can at least play this game again in good conscience. Peripeteia, initially, had my full support and love from the get go. From a niche project that I found with a tight knit community supporting it, I was happy to be able to play the demo on loop…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a game that resembles a dream at a temperature of 37.7 #peripeteia
positive · AI labelView post →She's waiting for the game to come out!!! #art #artist #digitalart #peripeteia
neutral · AI labelView post →low quality game held together with tape & strings, coasts entirely on vibes. would be able to overlook both if the devs werent weird transphobes that take pot shots at other way more polished and successful games. dont waste ur money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →been waiting for this game for ages and had fun such a fun blast exploring it. loved the tone of it #Art #Digitalart #Peripeteia #Fanart
positive · AI labelView post →Well, it was a ride. Very weird, but somehow satisfying. Some reviewers call this game an immersive sim full of variants and approaches. Is it true? Well... The first level (the Arcology) actually delivers: you’re free to sneak, shoot, climb, or talk your way through, checking every filthy corner like a true scavslav. After that… the game remembers it’s set in a collapsing post-Soviet cyberpunk hellscape and starts streamlining everything, less freeplay, more "do this" Absolute cons Can it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The true nature of cyberpunk would be to find this game elsewhere, and not give money to people who hate anyone that doesn't embody the status quo.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tremendous potential but "janky" is a massive understatement. Game survives and is worth playing on vibes alone, but it's going to need a lot more refinement. Still recommending it because I've enjoyed what I've experienced so far and it's worth playing despite the bugs and rough balancing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hasn't released a story update. The only "Immersive Sim" where previous chapter choices seem to never come back up ever again. I'm really confused on what it's trying to be. Game has no ending. It's a 25$ demo with a free demo attached.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Peripeteia game girl vs stairs
neutral · AI labelView post →#Peripeteia is an upcoming indie title that's not afraid to really immerse you into a tricky cyberpunk world.🎯 This RPG-stealth game where you play an android sniper; which is enough of a hook for me. Full Preview: www.rpgfan.com/2025/02/21/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →Peripeteia just launched into Early Access and Ctrl Alt Ego just became a cool game by association
neutral · AI labelView post →A while ago I bought a game called Peripeteia I didn't know the devs were pieces of shit.
negative · AI labelView post →Peripeteia will introduce young gamers to a product extremely out of time. It is out of time in several ways: Graphically, narratively, and game-mechanically. Graphically, it compares to games banking on eye-wateringly bad graphics such as Cruelty Squad or the PSX-pixel renaissance occurring in the horror genre. Dark/unlit areas are genuinely pixel-dead-black and no contrast changes on your monitor will assist. The built in lighting system is relatively rubbish, and there's a constant…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Whew. Avowed is a very pretty game, huh? Some real mental whiplash going from Peripeteia (which I adore the aesthetic of, but its intentionally abraisive) to this.
positive · AI labelView post →This is a really unique game with a lot of really awesome little touches, but the actual gameplay is impossible to follow, I get lost every few seconds, never feel like I'm going the right way and the directions characters give are so vague. You have no map or compass and you quickly run out of your nightvision in a game where you need it to see anything half the time. The battery power for nightvision is shared with your other abilities meaning once it's gone you can't do a ton of stuff like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game first playthrough around but it really starts to lack the more you replay it, this sucks especially for a immersive sim and it sucks more given that updates take 3 eternities. The shooting sucks in first person when you aim down sights and dont get me started on third person. It also runs like ♥♥♥♥ and looks like ♥♥♥♥ on my 7900xt on 1440p which for a game like this is pathetic. Oh, and the following is irrelevant to my score, but the dev just so happens to be a d1 nazi bourgeoisie…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's funny, the majority of my playtime was me asking myself "is this where i'm supposed to go?" and the game responding "Yeah sure why not?" There's no handholding outside of level design encouraging specific paths. A lot of time def was spent aimlessly wandering. HOWEVER, even with that consideration, high hopes for this game ! edit: 08/14/26 i miss this game and i want more
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game has immaculate vibes + art direction and just feels really good to play indie jank aside. the only con i can bring up is how chuddy and hateful the community that surrounds this game is for some reason. again the game itself is really good and has a very promising future but just don’t interact with the community in the slightest or even think about them until they decide to change and grow as people.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very good at representing an eastern european society during very hard times. There are many games about slavs often pivoting around slavic mythology but this game is unique. Developers made a game about people rebuilding a society after a cataclysm inside post-WW2 cyberpunk setting. There is a clear bias towards Poland but you are free to side against them. You get a lot of freedom in this game. Maybe too much. It's OK that player doesn't have a map, that maps themeselves are too…
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