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Syder Arcade

Studio Evil · 2013-10-24

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 03, 2014 (Android), Jan 28, 2013 (iOS), Oct 24, 2013 (Mac), Oct 24, 2013 (Linux), Oct 24, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.

0
playing now
83%
positive of 695 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 40% of 10,962 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 28k–56k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 695 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2015-02-02) · bundled 10×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-07-272015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-11 — best price $2.492015-09-21 — best price $9.992016-01-29 — best price $9.992016-06-23 — best price $4.992016-09-08 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $4.992017-07-10 — best price $7.492017-11-16 — best price $2.492018-01-22 — best price $4.992018-05-24 — best price $9.992018-11-21 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $4.992019-12-19 — best price $7.492020-01-22 — best price $7.492020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-05-18 — best price $9.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-05-24 — best price $9.992022-10-24 — best price $4.992022-12-12 — best price $2.992023-03-16 — best price $3.992023-06-29 — best price $2.992023-11-21 — best price $4.992024-02-19 — best price $7.492024-06-27 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992025-03-24 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $2.992025-10-20 — best price $4.992026-03-12 — best price $4.992026-06-08 — best price $0.992026-07-27 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Italian, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,9373%40

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieRetroSpaceActionArcadeSci-fiShooterSurvivalDifficultOld School

Census log

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

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