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Explore abandoned buildings alone or with up to four others, solve escape puzzles, and evade monsters drawn to sound.
Released 31 May 2024
Your Voice Attracts Monsters
Search Abandoned Buildings
Find Items, Unlock Exits
PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.
Developed by ZTEK Studio · Published by ZTEK Studio









You play as an urban explorer trapped in an abandoned place with unknown creatures inside. Go alone or cooperate with others to find a way out.
Search rooms and corridors for useful items, solve puzzles, and use what you find to open an exit. Each location offers multiple escape routes, while hiding places and distractions can help you avoid a pursuing monster.
Monsters can react to footsteps, other noise, and players’ voices, making sound part of the stealth challenge. Choose a difficulty, explore different locations, and collect documents or achievements; reviews also mention unlockable character skins.
Players who enjoy PANICORE often praise playing it with friends, where voice-triggered scares and chaotic chases turn tense escapes into shared laughs. Reviews also highlight its creepy atmosphere, distinct monsters, and the added challenge of different maps and difficulty settings. Others find the experience too repetitive or frustrating, particularly when monster behavior or voice chat feels unreliable.
In PANICORE, players take on the role of urban explorers drawn to dangerously abandoned places. For these people, it is exciting to discover lost arts, lost treasures and abandoned buildings, schools and other abandoned places.
But when they discover a spooky place - one that even the authorities advise against visiting - their adventures take a terrifying turn. The explorers are determined to learn the dark secrets of the abandoned place, so they ignore the warnings and follow their curiosity into its depths.
But an unforeseen turn of events quickly puts a stop to their exploration. They unexpectedly find themselves trapped in the abandoned building, with unknown forces blocking their way out. The explorers must work together to endure the horrors within and find a way out before it is too late, as fear sets in and they realize they are not alone.
Players must use all their bravery to solve puzzles, navigate the dangerous corridors and outwit the monster that wants to trap them in its evil clutches while time is of the essence.
Multiple Escape Routes: Confront a challenge with multiple distinct escape routes.
Dynamic Co-op Gameplay: Team up with friends in intense cooperative gameplay. Try to escape alone or together.
Relentless Pursuit: Face a relentless AI-driven monster that can hear your every step.
Immersive Hide-and-Seek: Utilize your surroundings for survival. Hide in cabinets, under tables, and in the shadows to outsmart the lurking terror. Every decision could mean the difference between life and a gruesome demise.
Find Items and Escape: To escape you have to find the right items that are distributed around the location and use them at the right place. Can you make it before it gets you?
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 30 |
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| Players | 1–5 |
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| Multiplayer | PANICORE supports single-player and online cooperative multiplayer. Official store text states co-op supports up to 5 players, with 4 players in the demo. The game is PvE-focused, built around players working together to escape maps, solve puzzles, avoid AI monsters, and use proximity/in-game voice chat that affects monster behavior. |
| Multiplayer & mods | One review states the game allows modding. No provided information explains how mods function in multiplayer or whether modded play is supported online. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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