Tin Can
Fair · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $6.25/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 970 or equivalent, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was April 2026. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 6 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Haven ($24.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Maia ($24.99, scores 0).
Of the 456 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 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 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 401 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 287 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
18% 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 05:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is very unique, but it is full of bad game design decisions which make it end up being boring. Even though I spent a lot of time in this game, I really can't recommend this to anyone who's not a fan of games where you maintain systems and chill for hours. But it's definitely worth trying on sale, I just don't think there's enough fun to be had for the full price. And since it's not in early access and the...
As someone who just purchased this game for VR.. I can't recommend it. Let's talk the tutorial. Just getting your hands in things is fun, but.. It barely teaches you anything. I do not mind figuring things out myself by sitting down and going through the manual while everything is falling apart around me.. The problem I have is how the tutorial teaches you that there are spare parts in the drawers.. And then when...
Scratches that engineer itch without being too cumbersome. Unfortunately there are only a handful of random events so there is not a whole lot of replayability. Good buy on sale.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tin Can scores 51/100 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/1315980/tin-canReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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