Danger Scavenger

Danger Scavenger

Skip · Roguelike · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 32, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
1.6h 11.5h to 100%
Value
$3.12/hr
Reviews
73% of 505 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each 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
Reviews73% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.12/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 340 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

Danger Scavenger is fast-paced action, cyberpunk-themed, roguelite skyline crawler. Blow up, cut, shoot enemy robots on the roofs of skyscrapers. Choose your way to higher levels, loot, buy stuff, upgrade yourself, fight against greedy corporations, be a rebel!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce 770 or equivalent DirectX 11 card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

63 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. On the same math NIMRODS ($9.99, scores 59) and SYNTHETIK 2 ($19.99, scores 51) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Danger Scavenger

This site sampled 340 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 145 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 1.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 12, 7.2 times as much.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

44% start to 5% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Even if they barerly make updats time to time, This game is still really good. And i love the music in their game aswell! it's really simple and short, but still a good and fun game to play with! i played it with my brother! and i used to own it back when i had a mac, the phew rare games that support mac!
Polilo06Recommendedafter 18hAug 2026Read on Steam
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メᵃʳᶜᵃᵈᵉ™ 💗Recommendedafter 1.3hFeb 2026Read on Steam
It's randomly generated action RPG shooter game worth buying when it's on discount.
walkmaneRecommendedafter 7.9hMar 2025Read 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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Danger Scavenger scores 32/100 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/1169740/danger-scavenger
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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

DeveloperPiotr Wolk
PublisherStar Drifters
GenreRoguelike
Released2021
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements41