Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Fair · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $11.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 74% over the last 30 days against 87% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660m or equivalent (Subject to change), 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
December 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $4.54. 72 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Survivalist ($4.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Force of Nature ($7.99, scores 44).
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. Players rate it 87 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 74 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 794 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 380 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
22% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
172 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 13:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Survivalist: Invisible Strain scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1054510/survivalist-invisible-strainReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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