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Surge cover art

Surge

House of Secrets · 2016-05-24

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: May 24, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Surge is a short VR music video made by Arjan van Meerten and produced at House of Secrets.

Surge is a free-to-play Indie game released in 2016, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 273 reviews).

0
playing now
95%
positive of 273 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (37 reviews).
  • · Top 22% of 49,851 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2019-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
343420162026Week of 2016-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerVR OnlyFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

VRIndieMusicFree to Play

Census log

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

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