Paraopticon

Paraopticon

Level01 Gamestudio · October 16, 2023 · Casual, Strategy, Point & Click, Puzzle, Exploration

Buy Paraopticon from Steam at $3.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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Positive80% · 10
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$3.99
lowest tracked $2.99
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Where to buy Paraopticon — official stores

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Standard Edition · Steam
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Paraopticon price by region

Paraopticon costs $2.69 in Georgia (USD), £3.39 in the United Kingdom, $3.99 in the United States, €3.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$4.99 in Canada, A$5.95 in Australia, NZ$5.99 in New Zealand, R$13.79 in Brazil and zł17.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Paraopticon offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $2.69 $2.69 — 1
United Kingdom £3.39 £3.39 — 1
United Statesyour region $3.99 $3.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €3.99 €3.99 — 1
Canada CA$4.99 CA$4.99 — 1
Australia A$5.95 A$5.95 — 1
New Zealand NZ$5.99 NZ$5.99 — 1
Brazil R$13.79 R$13.79 — 1
Poland zł17.99 zł17.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

About Paraopticon

✦ AI summary

Paraopticon puts you in a security guard's chair comparing camera feeds to spot and report anomalies before they kill you during your night shift. Survive until 6 AM by memorizing rooms, catching hundreds of potential anomalies, and using tools to stay ahead of the horror lurking in the feeds.

Paraopticon is an Observation Duty / Puzzle Game Style mix. Try to spot all anomalies and report them so you don´t die. Make it till 6 AM and you survive.

Paraopticon — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Paraopticon is a spot-the-difference horror game with appealing visuals and challenging, subtle anomalies that fans of the observation duty genre will appreciate, but it suffers from significant technical issues including save file corruption when exiting maps, linear progression locks, severe performance problems, UI bugs, and typos that hamper the experience. Players enjoy the concept and shop progression system, though the bugs and optimization issues make it difficult to recommend in its current state without fixes.

Recommended Oct 18, 2023
If you like observation duty games, you definitely should play this game. I played the demo before and it is a lot of fun. The level-system is nice and I love to work your way up to get more maps and items. That is something I have missed in most of the observation duty games I played in the past.
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Not recommended Feb 20, 2025
This game is a broken, buggy mess and will delete your save file if you exit a map, which wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that unlike basically every other observemup out there, maps are locked behind linear progression. Don't worry though, because the game is SO buggy and broken there is actually an exploit that allows you to play it at all past the first map. How to bug your save file into being playable: 1. Enter the game, and enter the first map. 2. Hit exit map, and go back to the main menu. 3. Exit the game from the main menu. 4. Restart the game, and then choose continue. You will now find that every stage is selectable behind the garbled menu text layer. Keep in mind though that the moment you leave any of these maps, win or lose, it will lock the rest up again. But temporarily unlocking them is just one game restart exploit away! Anyway as amusing as it is that the game is so broken that it wheels back into playable, this is one of the worst observemups of all time and it's shameful that the developers are still taking people's money for a build this nonfunctional. Bonus easter egg: you can click on lightswitches in the first couple of maps to turn the light…
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 10, 2025
I debated if I would recommend or not. I like these types of games a lot & thought I'd try this one. I know it shows I played 11 hours, but I would play a little bit & then stop for awhile. Playing recently, I'm realizing what's bugged about the game & makes it too hard to play beyond easy mode. The worst problem is this game makes my computer run like a jet engine. The last time I had this issue was when Diablo 4 came out & it had severe memory leak problems. For such a simple game, it should NOT be taxing my computer like this. The typos in all the info in the game starts it off, where if you want info about the items you can buy, it's messed up. It gives info for the camera when you click either room or type detector. Then in the store, the descriptions for room detector & type detector are swapped. I hadn't bought & used the tools in the game until I started playing again recently & trying to actually advance. But it was one tool, "type detector" that showed me there's more wrong with the game. It said there was a "door open/close" happening. Door open/close is a pretty obvious one & I didn't see it, but reported it anyway. It took it. That led me to believe maybe anomalies…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 1, 2023
I had a lot of fun playing this spot the difference horror game. Fans of Observation Duty will enjoy this one too! Positives: - Levels look wonderful - It’s a good challenge as some changes are so subtle that you have to watch extremely closely - The variety of scares vs. anomalies is a good balance - Great jump scares - Special items in the shop add an extra layer to the gameplay - VERY low price Areas for improvements: - A few minor bugs (ex. reporting an anomaly for a missing chair did not work, when I first tried to start the game it kept freezing but after a computer restart it worked fine.) - Sometimes anomaly types are not clear, and it resulted in a strike or two. It would be nice to toggle the 3 wrong answer feature on or off - Some typos/misspellings that can be a little distracting Overall a ton of fun, and I enjoyed playing the game on the big TV with my friends.
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Recommended Feb 3, 2025
I really enjoyed this game but it wont save my progress if I leave a level and come back. Is there a fix to this? Its hard to progress and discouraging.
Recommended Oct 22, 2023
Good horror spot the difference game , lot of anomilies and some jumpscares :)

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