Games like System Purge

If System Purge scratched a retro and tense itch for you, keep reading. These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Mechanic Escape
In a world oppressed by ruthless machines, a stronghold full of die-hard TV-sets resists the persecution. Your lost friends and the lack of resources drive you to take action against the extinction. Brave the dangers and go find your comrades to rescue your species!
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
81% of 85 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
1 Screen Platformer
This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
88% of 237 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
LOVE ETERNAL
Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever more.
Retro, Tense, Dark
95% of 527 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Escape the Underground
At the bottom of a massive underground dump, a sentient pile of sludge is born. After finding a discarded book that shows photographs of the surface, they decide to make the journey upward to see the outside world.
Retro, Tense, Dark
89% of 111 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Elypse
Embark upon a tragic tale and discover the ravaged world of Elypse! Fight your destiny in an arduous 2D adventure, story rich platformer, in a mesmerising and mysterious world.
Retro, Tense, Dark
72% of 315 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Dungeon Escape
A challenging 2D precision platformer with minimalist graphics and a great chiptune soundtrack. Escape a dangerous dungeon filled with enemies and deadly traps.
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
80% of 672 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Hypogea
Escape from a mysterious underground megastructure in this short atmospheric 3d-platformer.
Retro, Mysterious
97% of 850 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
RATUZ
After a science experiment gets out of control, you need to survive and escape this dark prison that hides weird secrets. The game is a cinematic platform of terror and stealth, inspired by INSIDE, Another World, Blackthorne and Prince of Persia.
Retro, Tense, Dark
88% of 350 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Selective Jump: Once Again With Feeling
An atmospheric platformer where players fight weird monsters that keep on claiming they're part of an operating system.
Retro, Fast-paced
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Pid
You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.
Retro, Mysterious
70% of 296 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Primal Light
Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
79% of 332 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
LIMBO
A boy wakes in a black-and-white world with glowing eyes and no instructions, searching for his sister. LIMBO is a short, grim puzzle platformer where every trap teaches you something, usually by killing you first. Quiet, eerie and unlike anything else, it sticks with you long after the credits.
Tense, Dark, Scary
91% of 41,036 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 96$12.49

Cheaper than System Purge

1 Screen Platformer

This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS.

$2.99

Dungeon Escape

A challenging 2D precision platformer with minimalist graphics and a great chiptune soundtrack.

$3.99

Seen

A lonely boy runs through a grey, hostile world with nothing but a cat and his hope.

$0.99

Pinkman

Pinkman is a fast-paced, action platformer about a lost man with pink skin and an incredible skill to fart.

$0.99

Hardcore and Death

Run through huge multi-level locations, avoiding spikes, falling platforms, and flying blades, use double jumps, and choose your route to reach the…

$1.99

Yury

For those of you who cannot live without old-style hardcore platformer challenges, Yury brings the ultimate spikes-lava-monsters experience.

$1.99

MainFrames

MainFrames invites you to meet Floppy and to browse a clever and charming platformer that plays out entirely within the windows and desktop of a PC…

$3.89

Alteric

Jump through boiling lava; run from perilous traps and saw blades; glide and climb through catacombs; fall into the abyss and overcome gravity.

$3.99

Death Fungeon

A puzzle platform game, with both stealth and parkour elements. Use your wits, cunning and agility to escape this deadly prison.

$2.99

An Imp? A Fiend!

Stuck in the Underworld without the slightest clue why, a young fiend has a bit of a mystery to solve in this action/adventure platformer.

$0.99

Return.

Take the lost soul to its home.

$0.99

DERE EVIL EXE

DERE EVIL EXE is both a terrifying thriller with a gripping meta horror story and a retro 16-bit pixel platformer with unique puzzles and obstacles.

$2.99

Hidden gems like System Purge

Hypogea

Escape from a mysterious underground megastructure in this short atmospheric 3d-platformer.

$9.99

LOVE ETERNAL

Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental…

$9.99

GhoulScrapers

Ghoulscrapers is a precision platformer where you play as Eggroll, the new employee at Ghoulscrapers.

$4.99

Lost Girl Platformer

Lost Girl Platformer is a thrilling 2D platform game where you play as a courageous girl.

Free

Leap Year

Explore a hand-drawn world, collect the days of a calendar and discover what your jump can really do.

$4.99

MainFrames

MainFrames invites you to meet Floppy and to browse a clever and charming platformer that plays out entirely within the windows and desktop of a PC…

$3.89

Lorn's Lure

An android chases a glitch deep into a vast forgotten structure, scaling sheer walls with pickaxes while quiet lore and dread build with every height.

$14.99