Steam
Store data
- UK price
- £4.54
- US price
- $5.15
- Positive reviews
- 100%
- Total reviews
- 0
- Release date
- 29 September 2026
Activity briefingSummary of recorded signals
Steam player data · App 3402660
System Clues
- Single-player
- Steam Achievements
- Family Sharing
Concurrent players0Most recent successful sample
Today's peak231/144 samples
Tracked peak2Highest retained daily peak
Steam rating100%0 reviews
Steam metadata
Game information
Details supplied by the Steam store
- App ID
- 3402660
- App type
- Game
- Developer
- CipherStudios ↗
- Publisher
- CipherStudios ↗
- Supported systems
- Windows
- Genres
- Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy
- Release date
- 29 September 2026
- Last player update
- 29 Sept · 23:10 UTC
Steam store data
System requirements
Supplied by the developer on Steam
Windows
Minimum
- OS *
- Win 7,8,10,11
- Processor
- lntel: Core i3-530
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Nvidia: GeForce 9600GT
- Storage
- 2 GB available space
Recommended
- OS *
- Win 7,8,10,11
- Processor
- lntel: Core i5-3300
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Nvidia: GeForce 560
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
Launch window
Released 29 September 2026 · Tracking from 29 September 2026
SteamWatch’s first observed day and week; tracking can begin after release. Top Sellers is Steam’s revenue ranking, not a sales estimate.
- Player peak
- 2
- Steam reviews
- 1100% positive
- Twitch peak
- Not recorded
- Price observed
- £4.54
- Top Sellers
- No appearanceNo ranked days
1 player-data day recorded in this window.
- Player peak
- 2
- Steam reviews
- 1100% positive
- Twitch peak
- Not recorded
- Price observed
- £4.54
- Top Sellers
- No appearanceNo ranked days
1 player-data day recorded in this window.
Peak 2Average 2Latest 0
P Patch or game update
24-hour and 7-day views use hourly peaks from ten-minute samples. Longer views use retained daily peaks. Up to 24 recent event markers are shown per layer.
Twitch
Twitch stats
Awaiting the first Twitch sample.
Long-term history
Monthly players breakdown
Calculated from SteamWatch samples
| Month | Peak | Gain | % gain | Average | Avg % gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 30 days | 2 | — | — | 1 | — |
| September 2026 | 2 | — | — | 1 | — |
Store price Regular price
Daily regional sweep
Regional prices
2 regions checked
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| United KingdomGBP · GB | GBP | £5.29 | £4.54 | 14% | £4.54 | No change recorded |
| United StatesUSD · US | USD | US$5.99 | $5.15 | 14% | $5.15 | No change recorded |
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| Latin America (regional USD)USD_LATAM · AR | — | — | Unavailable | — | — | No change recorded |
| Middle East & North Africa (regional USD)USD_MENA · EG | — | — | Unavailable | — | — | No change recorded |
| South Asia (regional USD)USD_SASIA · PK | — | — | Unavailable | — | — | No change recorded |
Positive rating100.0%
Positive reviews1
Negative reviews0
Review history is not available for this range yet.
Recent views use Steam's daily review activity. Longer views use weekly totals, retained by SteamWatch.
About this game
Description
Supplied by the Steam store
You picked up a laptop that isn't yours.
The boot splash flickers to life. NexusBIOS. The desktop is spotless — almost too spotless. You were only going to look. But the anonymous email in your inbox, the blinking warnings in your chats, and the post trending in your browser all point to one thing: this company is built on a system it wants no one to see.
System Clues is a story-driven adventure built on desktop-OS simulation, digital investigation, and reasoning-based attribution. You play an anonymous investigator who happens to come into possession of a target device. You move between the NexusBIOS desktop, the terminal, the browser, and the social web — piecing scattered clues into a complete chain of evidence — then lock in your conclusion on the case-reasoning board and decide how it all ends.
Five cases that seem unrelated — and one faint thread running through them all. You play an anonymous investigator who moves between the desktop, the terminal, and the social web, piecing scattered clues into a complete chain of evidence to expose truths carefully hidden from view. The deeper you dig, the clearer it becomes: these cases are not isolated. They point toward one deeper secret — one that may involve you.
Features
A realistic intrusion chain: hacking isn't a button press. Recon (nmap) → brute force (hydra) → injection (sqlmap) → foothold (reverse_shell) → privilege escalation (privesc) → lateral movement (lateral_move) → persistence (persist) — every stage has preconditions and a genuine feedback loop, modeled on real attack chains.
A living public sphere: every move echoes back through Pulse trends, social platforms, and private DMs from colleagues; sometimes the backlash of truth is more dangerous than silence.
Reasoning-based attribution: evidence isn't free. Answer six evidence-reasoning questions on the case board; a composite grade of deduction accuracy + evidence collected + restraint decides which ending you walk toward.
Multiple endings & moral alignment: the balance of order, neutrality, and rebellion — together with how clean or destructive your investigation was — decides the identity you walk away with. What that identity is, you'll have to find out for yourself.
An immersive desktop simulation: NexusBIOS ships with mail, chat, browser, wallet, and a task board. One laptop is a whole society in miniature.
Once the truth starts coming together, you can't stop it. Just how far are you willing to go?
Steam gallery
Screenshots
5 available
Steam store extras
Demos
1 available
Steam global stats
Achievements
73 achievements
| # | ||
|---|---|---|
| 01 | NPC Watcher | 87.5% |
| 02 | Terminal MasterUse 25 different terminal commands | 50.0% |
| 03 | Gossip GradRead 25 chats and trend feeds in Chapter 1 | 37.5% |
| 04 | Group LurkerRead 25 chats and group-feed entries in Chapter 4 | 37.5% |
| 05 | Night RiderRead 25 chats and dispatch feeds in Chapter 3 | 37.5% |
| 06 | On the RoadRead 25 chats and dispatch feeds in Chapter 2 | 37.5% |
| 07 | Social ButterflyView 15 chat logs | 37.5% |
| 08 | Curious MindRead all emails | 25.0% |
| 09 | Crime CollectorExperience 5 different crimes across multiple playthroughs | 12.5% |
| 10 | Crime EnthusiastExperience all 10 crimes across multiple playthroughs | 12.5% |
| 11 | Recon ExpertView reconnaissance files for all 4 NPCs | 12.5% |
| 12 | Social EngineerSuccessfully send a phishing email for the first time | 12.5% |
| 13 | ??? | 0.1% |
| 14 | ??? | 0.1% |
| 15 | ??? | 0.1% |
| 16 | AccompliceEnd on Accomplice — take over the Nest's reins | 0.1% |
| 17 | Algorithm TransparentEnd on Exposure — leak the dispatch algorithm | 0.1% |
| 18 | Backroom DealEnd on Trade — sell the evidence to the MCN | 0.1% |
| 19 | Bill ReaderMake 12 choices while unraveling Chapter 2's fee web | 0.1% |
| 20 | City RunnerPush Chapter 2 exploration progress to 100% | 0.1% |
| 21 | Clause ReaderMake 12 choices while untangling Chapter 3's fee-and-deposit web | 0.1% |
| 22 | Clumsy HackerFail 20 commands in total | 0.1% |
| 23 | Combo MasterTrigger 5 command combos | 0.1% |
| 24 | Cover Your TracksWipe over 100 log entries using wipe_logs | 0.1% |
| 25 | Deposit DealEnd on Trade — trade the evidence for a quiet payday | 0.1% |
| 26 | DetectiveDecrypt all encrypted files | 0.1% |
| 27 | Digital GhostComplete the game with no criminal record | 0.1% |
| 28 | Digital TerroristReach 100% destruction level | 0.1% |
| 29 | Digital VigilanteChoose the digital vigilante ending | 0.1% |
| 30 | Easter Egg HunterDiscover 3 hidden easter eggs | 0.1% |
| 31 | ExplorerReach 100% exploration progress | 0.1% |
| 32 | First ShiftReach any Chapter 2 ending | 0.1% |
| 33 | Four Corners | 0.1% |
| 34 | Four Dispatch Windows | 0.1% |
| 35 | Four Finales | 0.1% |
| 36 | Four Fires | 0.1% |
| 37 | Full ReroutePush Chapter 3 exploration progress to 100% | 0.1% |
| 38 | Full SweepPush Chapter 4 exploration progress to 100% | 0.1% |
| 39 | Ghost ProtocolReduce surveillance level from 5 to 1 | 0.1% |
| 40 | Hacker InitiateUse your first hacker tool command | 0.1% |
| 41 | HelperComplete all side quests | 0.1% |
| 42 | Hush MoneyEnd on Silence — the truth sinks into the platform server | 0.1% |
| 43 | Into the NestReach any Chapter 4 ending | 0.1% |
| 44 | Last FareReach any Chapter 3 ending | 0.1% |
| 45 | Located & RescuedEnd on Rescue — bring the driver back from an unanswerable last fare | 0.1% |
| 46 | Locked OutGet temporarily locked out at least once | 0.1% |
| 47 | Log ReaderMake 12 choices while untangling Chapter 4's intrusion-and-jump-box web | 0.1% |
| 48 | Marcus's FriendComplete Marcus's side quests | 0.1% |
| 49 | Moral CompassFace 5 moral dilemmas and make choices | 0.1% |
| 50 | MultiverseUnlock all endings | 0.1% |
| 51 | Net ClosedEnd on the Net — shut the group chat down yourself | 0.1% |
| 52 | News BreakerTrigger a dynamic news event (destruction >= 20) | 0.1% |
| 53 | On the SceneReach any Chapter 1 ending | 0.1% |
| 54 | Phishing VictimFall for a phishing trap and trigger a special ending | 0.1% |
| 55 | Plot TwisterEnd on Reversal — publish the truth | 0.1% |
| 56 | Policy HackerSuccessfully exploit policy loopholes 3 times | 0.1% |
| 57 | Recording LeakedEnd on Exposure — make the flat-rate and deposit traps public | 0.1% |
| 58 | Reverse-TamedEnd on Gray — turn the algorithm loophole into a business | 0.1% |
| 59 | Self-ProvenEnd on Self-Prove — prove you were merely the one misled | 0.1% |
| 60 | Shill SpotterMake 15 choices while untangling Chapter 1's comment army | 0.1% |
| 61 | Silent LineEnd on Silence — bury the recording in a folder nobody reopens | 0.1% |
| 62 | Speed RunnerComplete the game within 60 minutes | 0.1% |
| 63 | Stealth MasterUse 5 stealth operations without detection | 0.1% |
| 64 | Sunk CostEnd on Silence — the truth rots on the drive | 0.1% |
| 65 | SurvivorSurvive to an ending with destruction over 50 | 0.1% |
| 66 | Task MasterComplete all TaskBoard tasks | 0.1% |
| 67 | Timed HeroComplete all timed quests | 0.1% |
| 68 | Tool MasterUse 5 different hacker tools | 0.1% |
| 69 | Trace BackEnd on Trace Back — run the relay chain to its roots | 0.1% |
| 70 | Traffic CaptiveEnd on Traffic — you become the biggest meme in the thread | 0.1% |
| 71 | Trend GraduatePush Chapter 1 exploration progress to 100% | 0.1% |
| 72 | Walked AwayEnd on Giving Up — nobody ever chases those 8 minutes | 0.1% |
| 73 | WhistleblowerChoose the whistleblower ending | 0.1% |
Saved from Steam
Patches
3 tracked updates
Bug Fixes
- Watchdog no longer disappears after starting a new game — The Watchdog companion could flash on screen for a moment and then vanish as soon as a new game started, and beginning another game would not bring it back, even with the toggle enabled in Settings. It now reliably returns to its default spot in the bottom-right corner on every new game, and its position and size still carry over between sessions. - Full localization for Settings → Personalization — The personalization page (wallpaper and account avatars) previously fell back to Chinese no matter which language was selected. Every label, button, hint, and success/error message on that page now follows the selected language, across all five supported languages.
Read full update on Steam ↗Demo Update: Version 2.0.3 to 2.0.4
Demo Update content:1. Provide additional guidance and entry points for obtaining target role information such as Ethan's email and employee ID in the help section;2. The browser supports fuzzy matching word selection, eliminating the need for players to manually input the complete word.Demo 更新内容：1.帮助中补充关于 等目标角色信息的获取思路及入口说明；2.浏览器支持模糊匹配选词，不需要玩家完全手动输入完整。
Read full update on Steam ↗Demo Version TO 2.0.1
Read full update on Steam ↗
Game activity
Recent changes
Steam events and SteamWatch observations
- SteamWatchPlayer data
New tracked player peak
2 concurrent players — the highest daily peak recorded at that point.
- SteamPatch
Bug Fixes ↗
- Watchdog no longer disappears after starting a new game — The Watchdog companion could flash on screen for a moment and then vanish as soon as a new game started, and beginning another game would not bring it back,…
- SteamRelease
Released on Steam
Release date supplied by the Steam store.
- SteamPatch
Demo Update: Version 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 ↗
Demo Update content:1. Provide additional guidance and entry points for obtaining target role information such as Ethan's email and employee ID in the help section;2. The browser supports fuzzy matching word selection…
- SteamPatch
Demo Version TO 2.0.1 ↗
Steam news update.