The Bugger!
Short description
Welcome to Silicon Island, where you are the only programmer in town! You enjoy the simple life of diskettes and dial-up connections, until one day your boss ruins it with an email. He sends you some files to review, but your computer explodes and releases a swarm of bugs that infect the island.
- Developer
- SpectraCoder
- Publisher
- SpectraCoder
- Release
- Fri, Sep 01, 2023
- Price
- $7.99
- Reviews
- 3
- Positive
- 100%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 20K – 50K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Adventure, Casual, RPG
- Features
- Full controller support
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by the $7.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
Tracking started Aug 14, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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