Necesse
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.74.
- Length
- 24h
- Value
- $0.41/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 (1 GB) / AMD Radeon HD 6570 (1 GB), 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was December 2021. Its cuts run 33 percent off as a rule. There have been 65 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $9.74 at 35 percent off still sits 95 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Terraria ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Edge of Space ($14.99, scores 0).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 18 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 1,659 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 24 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 70, 2.9 times as much.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
90% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 24-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
507 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Couldn't Wait for Terraria 2 This game is effectively another game like Terraria or Core Keeper. You gather resources, build a base, fight monsters and kill bosses. As you defeat bosses you progress through the different tiers and often just straight up skip some tiers. If you are an experience player of these types of games, play on hardest difficulty for the best experience. Bosses are challanging but balanced...
This game is great. Does what Terraria does, but differently and some things it actually does better.
One of my all-time favorite games, the similarities to terraria are undeniable but there is so much that sets it apart it'd be a disservice to stop there. for me personally i greatly enjoyed the settlement management. Having settlers go and obtain resources, run the farm, sell gear etc was incredibly satisfying to set up and i loved how the settlers each had their own quirks you had to work around in order to max...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Necesse scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1169040/necesseThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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