Chromosome Evil
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$13.02Fair
- Length
- 5.7h 14.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.63/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 359 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.02 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
44 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 33 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, This War of Mine ($19.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats The Last Haven ($19.99, scores 5).
More about Chromosome Evil
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 332 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to July 2026.
5.7 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
21% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Awesome little game. It's the only thing to scratch the same itch as Strain Tactics, an incredible tactical shooter with a similar premise from five years earlier. While Strain Tactics is a more varied, polished, and overall a larger game, Chromosome Evil is a very worthy low-budget companion to it, it makes perfect sense they're bundled for sale here on Steam. I will be honest; if this game looks interesting to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Chromosome Evil is a dark, uncompromising blend of real-time squad tactics and survival horror that places tension and consequence at the center of its design. Developed and published by S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L., the game deliberately distances itself from conventional real-time strategy formulas, instead focusing on small-scale engagements, limited resources, and a suffocating atmosphere shaped by eldritch horror...
I only recommended this game only if you bought it on discount the concept is really awesome, but the execution is just plain bad the difficulty is WTF, the change between ez, norm and hard is barely visible the biggest problem is that in later stage of the game, the hoard became impossible to manage u have to save and reload until you got perfect start of the first 5 day for the later campaign to feels right...
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Cite this score
Chromosome Evil scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1035660/chromosome-evilReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.