Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 6GB, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter brings you an authentic and historically accurate destroyer simulation along with gripping anti-submarine warfare set in the turmoils of the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
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. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $8.99. It has been discounted 35 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, UBOAT ($8.39, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts ($34.99, scores 8).
Of the 525 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 619 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 181 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
48% start to 1% rarestNo 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1272010/destroyer-the-u-boat-hunterReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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