The Game Census
Archimedes cover art

Archimedes

Joshua Hughes · 2016-10-06

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 06, 2016 (Linux), Oct 06, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 06, 2016 (Mac)

After you purchase and install Archimedes, an old operating system appears to be running, and a strange man asks for your help as you start to discover the terrible secrets behind the game.

0
playing now
79%
positive of 214 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 50% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.3k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 214 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2017-09-09) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.742016-09-022026-07-092016-09-02 — best price $0.992016-10-11 — best price $2.992016-10-14 — best price $2.992016-11-01 — best price $2.992016-11-29 — best price $2.992017-01-02 — best price $2.992017-01-26 — best price $2.992017-03-06 — best price $2.992017-05-11 — best price $1.192017-05-25 — best price $2.992017-07-05 — best price $2.992017-09-09 — best price $0.742017-09-23 — best price $2.992017-11-22 — best price $1.042017-12-21 — best price $1.042018-01-11 — best price $0.892018-02-15 — best price $1.042018-05-10 — best price $0.892018-06-22 — best price $0.892018-10-30 — best price $0.892018-11-21 — best price $0.892018-12-20 — best price $0.742019-02-04 — best price $0.742020-03-24 — best price $1.992020-06-01 — best price $1.992020-07-09 — best price $1.992020-11-02 — best price $1.992021-11-01 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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Player tags

GoreIndieHorrorHackingPsychological Horror

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.