SLUDGE LIFE

SLUDGE LIFE

Fair · Narrative · 2021

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.2h
Value
$6.81/hr
Reviews
91% positive
It needs 39% off ($9.16) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
4.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$6.81
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
91%
5,553 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
73
critic score
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 7600 GS (512 MB) or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

SLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value$6.81/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length2.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 388 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2023. 38 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SLUDGE LIFE 2 ($5.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Heavy Bullets ($9.99, scores 54).

73 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 388 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 269 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
SLUDGE LIFE scores 60/100 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/1144770/sludge-life
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+18
Critics
73
Players
91
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 5,553 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTerri Vellmann
PublisherDevolver Digital
GenreNarrative
Released2021