ORION: Prelude
Skip · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.70/hr
- Reviews▼
- 76% of 28,366
- Genre rank
- Top 46% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.7h
- To 100%
- 187.2h 50.6x the story
- Finish
- 24% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 251
Price and sales
- Sales
- 81 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 December 2014
- Sale every
- 39d last July 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 8 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 43% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
54% start to 24% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in December 2014. Across all 81 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 46 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Primal Carnage ($4.99, scores 46) beats it on value, while it beats Guardians of Orion (Phase 2) ($0.99, scores 0).
More about ORION: Prelude
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 526 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 7,048 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 3.7 hours; clearing it takes 187, which is 51 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.99 (20% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Game was great fun before but now it's back in active development more than 7 years after last update
2 more reviews
It was my first Steam game I played when I went to PC with a 1050 back then and it just works smooth and its very enjoyable. The fact that he did not give up the game after many years is impressive. I recommend playing this and see for yourself.
Can't say much about the current development stuff, but what I can say is, that the game back in 2014 rocked. Seeing, that the game picked up active development after so much time in between is great news. For 1$/€ or 0,99$/€ I should say, there is hardly any game, that could beat the value, that this game gives you. I got over 100 hours of fun out of the game when it came out and in my opinion is one of the few...
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About the game
Work together to survive the devastating Dinosaur horde in huge, endless environments.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 256 MB Graphics Memory (SM3), 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ORION: Prelude scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/104900/orion-preludeReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.