System Purge
Worth it · Action · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.8h 4.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.77/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 208 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 102 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT/ AMD Radeon HD 6450, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
13 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 15 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, DEADBOLT ($9.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Valfaris ($24.99, scores 43).
More about System Purge
Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 56 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.8 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
89% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
A fun little precision platformer you can finish in under 2 hours. The premise is simple, the platforming is generally tight and the frustration level is manageable. There will definitely be some cheap deaths, but I didn't think it quite reached Kaizo difficulty. All in all, a good time.
2 more reviews
System Purge, developed and published by Actual Nerds, is a tightly focused 2D action-platformer that builds its identity around precision, atmosphere, and restraint. Rather than overwhelming players with mechanics or exposition, it drops them into a decaying, underground facility with only a vague objective-descend deeper and find someone important-and lets the experience unfold through movement and environmental...
Fun platformer. Challenging but not frustrating. I also loved The Tarnishing of Juxtia and am looking forward to System Purge 2. Actual Nerds are underrated
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Cite this score
System Purge scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1515490/system-purgeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.