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The Superfluous cover art

The Superfluous

Voided Pixels · 2017-05-19

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 19, 2017 (Linux), May 19, 2017 (Mac), May 19, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"The Superfluous" [soo-pur-floo-uh s] A cave-diving, sci-fi, rogue-lite, platformer with jet packs and lots of explosions. Help stop an apocalyptic asteroid on collision course with Earth. Lead a squad to the center of the asteroid and blast it into space dust.

81%
positive of 54 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 60% of 18,561 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 54 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2020-06-25) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162026Week of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$0.492016-11-212026-08-292016-11-21 — best price $5.992016-12-03 — best price $5.992017-01-06 — best price $3.492017-01-26 — best price $5.992017-06-22 — best price $2.492017-07-03 — best price $2.492017-07-17 — best price $4.992017-09-07 — best price $2.492017-10-16 — best price $4.992017-11-16 — best price $2.492017-12-21 — best price $2.492018-01-25 — best price $4.992018-08-30 — best price $1.242019-05-13 — best price $0.992020-07-09 — best price $1.992022-01-20 — best price $0.992022-05-07 — best price $1.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $3.992023-04-03 — best price $4.992023-06-29 — best price $0.992023-10-16 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $3.492024-02-19 — best price $4.992024-05-13 — best price $0.692024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-09-18 — best price $4.992024-11-24 — best price $2.492025-01-09 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $2.492025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-10-27 — best price $2.492025-12-15 — best price $4.992026-01-19 — best price $2.492026-03-09 — best price $4.992026-04-13 — best price $2.492026-05-27 — best price $4.992026-08-15 — best price $0.792026-08-29 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading Cards

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieActionSci-fiAdventureDifficultPlatformerRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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