Atrio: The Dark Wild

Atrio: The Dark Wild

Skip · Strategy · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$19.99Skip

On its price record

$14.19Fair

Length
12.2h 27.1h to 100%
Value
$1.64/hr
Reviews
79% of 604 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.19 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $9.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in 7 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

Holding it back
Value$1.64/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 419 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 21 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Nova Lands ($8.99, scores 78) outscores it, and so does Satisfactory ($39.99, scores 98). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Atrio: The Dark Wild

4 of the 419 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026.

The main story runs 12.2 hours. Doing everything runs 27, 2.2 times as long.

The drop-off

78% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
3 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 12:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Atrio the dark wild truly is one of the factory/story games of all times. I wouldn't say its a particulary good game, but I also wouldn't say its a bad game in general, but since there is no neutral option, I had to choose one. I never felt too invested in the game and I felt like in some points it was lacking. The combat was annoying instead of fun, he story is okay, it tries to be funny bat rarely succeeds at...
lonelyPorterNot recommendedafter 14h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
im not gonna lie im writing reviews rn for games i've played and i literally can't think of what i did for 10 hours on this game
ChlebickiNot recommendedafter 11h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Atrio: The Dark Wild is a survival automation game developed and published by Isto Inc. that successfully combines factory building, exploration, and narrative-driven progression into a distinctive science-fiction adventure. Instead of focusing on relentless combat, the game encourages players to overcome the harsh environment through intelligent engineering, resource management, and automation. You take control of...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 13hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Atrio: The Dark Wild scores 46/100 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/1125390/atrio-the-dark-wild
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIsto Inc.
PublisherIsto Inc.
GenreStrategy
Released2023
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements22