Fried Panic

Fried Panic

Simply Artizan · September 28, 2022 · Action, Action Roguelike, Roguelike, Roguelite, 2D

Fried Panic is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Very Positive88% · 56
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Fried Panic price

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About Fried Panic

Survive as long as possible in Fried Panic! Buy weapons, abilities, and even donut producing machines. Fight through waves of eggs, lemons, chicken drumsticks, and much more, all in a top down pixel art style.

Key Features:



  • A unique combat system utilizing each hand separately
  • 15+ unique weapons to buy
  • 10 unique passive abilities to buy
  • 10+ unique enemies to fight
  • 4 passive abilities to buy in the shop
  • 4 skins to buy in the shop
  • Endless waves of increasing difficulty to see how long you can survive
  • An original soundtrack of 5+ songs
  • A unique top down pixel art style
  • A completely free game with no microtransactions

Fried Panic — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Fried Panic receives divided opinions from players, with some appreciating it as a fun free-to-play wave survival brawler with Vampire Survivors-style progression, while others criticize its weak combat mechanics, pixelated visuals, and pacing issues like slow wave arrival times. Common requests include features like autoswing and multiplayer, though the game's free price point makes it worth trying for those interested in the genre. Players who enjoy it tend to emphasize the lack of cost as a factor in their recommendation.

Not recommended Feb 13, 2025
"Fried Panic" is a garbage tier 2D retro pixel top down wave survival brawler that borrows progression mechanics from Poncle's Vampire Survivor and combines it with very weak brawling mechanics. What do you do in the game? You just brawl around in top down perspective, upgrade your stuff, then Alt + F4 very quickly because there's literally over 100,000 better games than this on Steam. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a…
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Recommended Oct 11, 2024
This game is free, and it is realy good.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 19, 2026
fun game that i am glad is free
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 29, 2024
good =)
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 21, 2024
i wIsh they would add multiplayer so me and my friend can play great game though
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 29, 2024
needs autoswing. waves need to come sooner. this was both exhausting and boring at the same time.

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