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ActionCasualIndieSimulationSandboxGorePhysicsViolentModdable

People Playground

Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

Developer
mestiez
Publisher
Studio Minus
Franchise
Release date
Jul 23, 2019
Store page updated
Apr 21, 2026
Price
$9.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

91.2/ 100

Based on 379 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 1,898
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 318,127
“best game ever for stress relief”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+3.91
Freedom +4.63 · Room to explore, build, and play your own way
“best sandbox game, surpasses competitors in every way” (126)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+1.88

Not enough data — only 3% of reviews mention this.

World +3.33 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+3.22
Volume +3.39 · How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price
“303 hours of engaging gameplay thanks to FPS++ mod” (13)
Спасибо огромное тому, кто создал FPS++, из-за него я просрал 303 часа в игре

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+3.15

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

Visuals +2.95 · Graphics, art style, and animation
“graphics are good and visually appealing” (14)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+2.52

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

Community +2.86 · Who you play with — how many, and how friendly

🔒 2 more indicators

Pricing & Fairness
+2.63

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

Pricing +3.00 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Support
-1.00
Developer support -1.62 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
“no developer updates for a couple years” (16)

🔒 2 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Jul 2019Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,884 reviews, peak 97/day
050100
Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 379 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English37%
  • Russian29%
  • Spanish9%
  • Portuguese9%
  • Turkish5%
  • Polish4%
  • Other7%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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