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Void Stranger cover art

Void Stranger

System Erasure · 2023-09-01

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 01, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Place your faith and embrace the Void.

61
playing now
91%
positive of 3.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

61 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Void Stranger is a 2023 sokoban-style puzzle video game created by independent Finnish developer System Erasure. Players control a character descending to the bottom of a labyrinth while solving puzzles to progress. The game features layered secrets and mechanics that gradually change the gameplay. The game is known for its difficulty, as well as the complexity of its storyline.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 61 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 485 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~61/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 71k–160k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,561 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.23 at Steam (2025-04-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
34134120232026Week of 2023-09-01: 341 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 198 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

61132026-08-11 19:00 — 43 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 29 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 53 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 53 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 25 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 30 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 58 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 33 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 44 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 48 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 20 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 53 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 50 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 27 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 55 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 41 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 31 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 50 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 55 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 25 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 45 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 40 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 20 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 39 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 38 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 13 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 46 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 41 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 61 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.99$9.232023-09-012026-07-092023-09-01 — best price $10.792023-09-08 — best price $11.992023-12-21 — best price $10.192024-01-04 — best price $11.992024-06-27 — best price $10.192024-07-11 — best price $11.992024-12-19 — best price $9.592025-01-02 — best price $11.992025-04-21 — best price $9.232025-04-28 — best price $11.992025-06-26 — best price $9.592025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-12-18 — best price $9.592026-01-05 — best price $11.992026-06-25 — best price $9.592026-07-09 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

679552026-06-01 — 71 pageviews2026-06-04 — 210 pageviews2026-06-07 — 85 pageviews2026-06-10 — 73 pageviews2026-06-13 — 95 pageviews2026-06-16 — 100 pageviews2026-06-19 — 106 pageviews2026-06-22 — 67 pageviews2026-06-25 — 125 pageviews2026-06-28 — 122 pageviews2026-07-01 — 118 pageviews2026-07-04 — 105 pageviews2026-07-07 — 116 pageviews2026-07-10 — 118 pageviews2026-07-13 — 81 pageviews2026-07-16 — 115 pageviews2026-07-19 — 71 pageviews2026-07-22 — 86 pageviews2026-07-25 — 135 pageviews2026-07-28 — 85 pageviews2026-07-31 — 79 pageviews2026-08-03 — 81 pageviews2026-08-06 — 83 pageviews2026-08-09 — 95 pageviews2026-08-12 — 60 pageviews2026-08-15 — 85 pageviews2026-08-18 — 108 pageviews2026-08-21 — 80 pageviews2026-08-24 — 96 pageviews2026-08-27 — 85 pageviews2026-08-29 — 157 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

1
achievements tracked
100%
earned "Pendant"
100%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Finnish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,944100%1

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

Player tags

2DIndieRetroPuzzleMysterySokobanTop-DownAdventureDifficultStory Rich

Census log

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

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