Paratopic

Paratopic

Arbitrary Metric · September 6, 2018 · Indie, Horror, Surreal, Adventure, Retro

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Paratopic price by region

Paratopic costs £0.59 in the United Kingdom, €0.66 in Europe (EUR), $0.86 in the United States, zł3.65 in Poland, $4.99 in Georgia (USD), R$5.88 in Brazil, CA$6.99 in Canada, A$6.99 in Australia and NZ$8.99 in New Zealand right now.

Cheapest Paratopic offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £0.59 −88% £4.99 £0.59 4
Europe (EUR) €0.66 −87% €4.99 €0.66 5
United Statesyour region $0.86 −83% $4.99 $0.86 5
Poland zł3.65 −82% zł19.99 zł3.65 3
Georgia (USD) $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Brazil R$5.88 −65% R$16.99 R$5.88 2
Canada CA$6.99 CA$6.99 — 1
Australia A$6.99 A$6.99 — 1
New Zealand NZ$8.99 NZ$8.99 — 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.

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About Paratopic

✦ AI summary

You navigate a surreal fever dream across three intersecting character stories involving smuggling, rare birds, and darker deeds, piecing together a fragmented narrative through cryptic environmental vignettes. This experimental horror game cuts between eerie low-poly locations with an acclaimed dark ambient soundtrack that blurs retro and modern aesthetics to create an unsettling, dreamlike atmosphere in under an hour.

"Paratopic is probably the most important first-person game this year."
Waypoint

You got caught smuggling VHS tapes across the border, and now there's hell to pay. You want to find an elusive rare bird in the forest and snap its picture. You have to kill a man in the back room of a shady diner.

This is Paratopic, an experimental first-person horror game named by Rock, Paper, Shotgun as one of the best games of 2018, and by FACT mag as having one of the top 10 soundtracks of the year.
  • A narrative, horror tinged adventure game that takes you on a journey through a cruel fever dream world.
  • Cutting between numerous detailed and varied vignettes, unravel how the stories of three separate characters intersect.
  • Explore the detritus of forbidden industry, kill, drive through the night, find yourself in conversation with some very off-kilter individuals.
  • A leisurely playthrough should take forty five minutes give or take, with plenty more to discover in the detailed, grimey low polygon environments. Or speedrun it, if you'd prefer.
  • Over an hour of gorgeous dark ambient music is used to create our subtly dynamic soundscape. An anachronistic blend of modern and outdated production as glitches and textural pads meet synthesis & sampling akin to a haunted recollection of 90s Unreal Engine soundtracks.

Paratopic — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Sep 9, 2026
its a good hour-long dive into a vague and bleak walking simulator, you get to shoot at least one person!
Recommended Sep 7, 2026
Do not ask questions, for you will be disappointed as there are no answers.
Recommended Sep 5, 2026
Pretty good short game and story, love the aesthetics and the world seems really cool, loved it 10/10
Recommended Sep 2, 2026
I get the hate on driving sections: they are longer than a TikTok video and feature no explosions, breakcore background music, or Minecraft parkour to make them bearable for an atmospheric game. I get the hate on artsy and disjointed narrative: forming an impression and paying attention to details is unrewarding and needlessly hard, and the dev should've just asked Claude to fix the plot. I get the hate on boring gameplay: interrupting the dopamine supply for content consumers ought to be a crime. If you make a horror, throw in a couple of jumpscares, and if you make a walking simulator, add a bunch of "press E to see a biblical reference" type interactions – or at least shove the plot summary down my throat at some point, as my brain would physically hurt if I admit I didn't understand a thing (every person is responsible to have their concrete and lacking nuance opinions aligned with the-current-thing circulating in online bot farms and echo chambers or copied/screenshotted from hallucinating random string generators being marketed as the next industrial revolution). What I don't get is why the achievement system is the way it is as I had a power cut right in the middle of collec…
Recommended Aug 30, 2026
Short and sweet. There isn't a lot of content, but I found it interesting. The story leaves you with a lot of questions and very few answers by design
Recommended Aug 26, 2026
worst headlights of any car i've ever driven 12/10 on a serious note it's okay to not totally understandthingssometimeserrebuuuknurrrrwugbh?

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