System Crash
Fair · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $2.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2016. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 17.1h
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 329 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
System Crash is a story-driven cyberpunk collectible card game inspired by Blade Runner and Neuromancer. When corporations own everything and the line between man and machine is blurred, your only option is to fight to survive!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512MB, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was December 2024. Across all 89 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mythgard (free, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Nowhere Prophet ($24.99, scores 26).
More about System Crash
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 17.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
68% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 15:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's a neat idea for a deck builder card game with cyberpunk narrative, but the balance is just too awful to enjoy. Short version: going 2nd is a crippling disadvantage, not taking simultaneous damage is a mistake, and getting better cards takes far too long. Mostly, it's that it has no idea how tempo works, and the reasons other card games do what they do to create a fair experience. Winning the coin flip for 1st...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Not a bad game, but a boring one. I would probably have rated it Yes if it was not so long for no good reasons. You will be literally forced into multiple combats that are all the same, for the sake of making the game last longer. This is usually not a good idea. This game, with a total duration of 5-8 hours would have been fine. Longer is not better: it's just boring!
hi ive played this game for hours and hours offline, and i cant believe i forgot to leave a review. even though the game is 10 years old, its still amazing :o) my fav challenge after completing the game, is to play a game where i have to add as many copies of each card i can get my hands on - its probably the ultimate challenge because you dilute the pool of cards, but you can still win :)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
System Crash scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/481180/system-crashReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.