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Pop-Up Purgatory
It’s 1998, and your desktop is drowning in pop-ups. Close them for cash, upgrade your PC, fight real viruses from computing history and keep your RAM from crashing. Something is waiting. Something is watching. Are you forgetting something?

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Features
Single-player
Steam Achievements
Steam Cloud
Family Sharing
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Languages:
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Planned Release Date: January 2027

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About This Game

IT'S 1998, YOUR DESKTOP IS DROWNING IN POP-UPS.

Pop-Up Purgatory is an incremental clicker where every ad, chain letter and fake installer you destroy pays out, and the cash buys faster, stronger upgrades.

  • Click pop-ups to shatter them. Spend the cash on upgrades and helpers, and when the run ends, the BIOS turns it into permanent upgrades for the next one.

  • Fight historical viruses. Six bosses from computing history, from 1982's Elk Cloner to 2000's ILOVEYOU, each taking over the screen with its own attack pattern.

  • Every run takes you further. Prestige, new upgrades and more to find.

  • But something is waiting. Something is watching. Are you forgetting something?

  • Streamers! Connect your Twitch chat and viewers can open pop-ups with their names on them, or vote on chaos like inverted controls or flying toasters.

  • No login or extension needed.

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Accessibility: text size, a dyslexia-friendly font, reduced flashes and glitch effects, game speed, hold to click and captions for sounds.

Content note: beneath the clicking, the story touches on death, depression and isolation.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-8250U or equivalent
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 620 or equivalent
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: A mouse is recommended.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 or 11 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-10400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 570
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Storage: 1 GB available space