The Shore
Skip · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $4.80/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
THE SHORE is a first person story driven game with an atmospheric environment and narrations, You will encounter mysterious creatures and unravel the secrets behind them. Strong elements of horror, struggle to survive an unknown world that will make you question your own sanity.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.19, set in January 2025. 63 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is less well reviewed than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Amnesia: Rebirth ($29.99, scores 36) beats it on value, while it beats Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2021 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 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 192 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 318 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
At 2.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
77% start to 11% 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 17:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
One of the best Mythos games I've ever played... The Shore is easily one of the most visually stunning Lovecraftian experiences I have ever played. Ares Dragonis has crafted a world that feels genuinely oppressive, terrifying, and awe-inspiring all at once. The scale of the cosmic entities and the haunting atmospheric sound design capture true cosmic horror like few games manage to do. Standing on that desolate...
Okay game. First half is great, second half with the diving suit and artifact not so much. No technical issues. Not much to do, interacte with some items and some shooting with the artifact. Takes about 2hrs to complete. I recommend it but not for full price.
Just terrible. The only good thing about this game are the visuals. The graphics, the scale, the style - it all looks good and done with effort. Everything else is just terrible. The game design is a mess. You start it as a badly written narrative walking sim. Then it turns to puzzles, and then to survival shooter. And all that goes from 0 to 100 in a second, with completely abandoning mechanics afterwards. The game...
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Cite this score
The Shore scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1297300/the-shoreReviews 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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