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System Purge cover art

System Purge

Actual Nerds · 2022-04-05

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 05, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.

96%
positive of 208 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 23 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 30% of 26,682 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.2k–9.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 208 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2025-03-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
454520222026Week of 2022-04-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$0.992022-04-052026-07-092022-04-05 — best price $4.992022-08-01 — best price $3.992022-08-08 — best price $4.992022-10-28 — best price $3.992022-12-01 — best price $4.992022-12-22 — best price $3.992023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-03-09 — best price $3.742023-03-16 — best price $3.742023-06-29 — best price $2.492023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-07-20 — best price $2.492023-08-03 — best price $4.992023-10-26 — best price $3.042023-11-02 — best price $4.992024-07-29 — best price $3.992024-08-05 — best price $4.992024-10-28 — best price $1.992024-11-04 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-06-26 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-10-01 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-10-27 — best price $0.992025-11-03 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
89.4%
earned "Into The Machine"
55.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-05-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1338%18

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

Player tags

2DDarkGoreIndieActionHorrorSci-fiViolentZombiesPlatformer

Census log

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

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