Outcast - A New Beginning
Fair · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 20.4h
- Value
- $0.49/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 980 Ti / Radeon RX 5600 XT, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Explore the breathtaking alien world of Adelpha, support the local Talans in their struggles and fight your way through fast-paced battles against invading robot forces in this 3rd-person, open world, action adventure sequel to the 1999 cult classic.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was January 2026. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 21 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 35 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT ($39.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Star Wars Outlaws ($17.49, scores 28).
This site sampled 569 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 161 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
76% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is better than i thought it would be, its been on my wishlist for awhile and since its on sale for $10 i thought why not.... The whole jetpack concept makes this game great but you do need all the upgrades to really enjoy it. The world is beautiful and the combat is basic but fun. The only thing im not a huge fan of is the story... its kind of confusing i mean i kinda get whats going on but some of it i...
Outcast - a new beginning is an adventure game. It is a soft reboot of the original Outcast game, set a few decades after that. The environment was changed quite a bit, the society is rebooted as a different one. But I liked this new approach. At 48+ hours it was much longer than I expected. The game has a large area to explore. In fact doubly so, as verticality is used to great extents, sometimes to very excessive...
This game is fun... however, the fun is locked behind an array of poor story-telling and interface choices. The developers made an open-world game, then they desperately try to control how you interact with that world for the first hours of the game, if not more. The game is also chatty and cut-scene heavy, though not to the annoying levels of a Kojima production. I find myself skipping as much dialogue as I can...
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Cite this score
Outcast - A New Beginning scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1013140/outcast-a-new-beginningReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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