Cabin Fever
Worth it · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.11.
- Length
- 1.8h 2.8h to 100%
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 489 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.11 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
About the game
An off-grid cabin. A tech-savvy loner. One ray of sunshine in a bleak, ruined world. Cabin Fever is a slice-of-life visual novel with meaningful player choices, multiple endings to explore, and a story that will touch your heart.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
29 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 27 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $4.11, a level the record has reached 2 times.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Death and Taxes ($1.68, scores 73) and When The Past Was Around ($7.99, scores 75) both outscore it.
More about Cabin Fever
This site sampled 319 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
92% start to 31% 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
What players say
in the span of 2.3 hours, i have; experienced every stage of grief at once had my heart fall through my ass in shock of twists that i did NOT see coming but were perfectly built up to at the same time cried multiple times grown attached to a characters i knew for ten minutes at most felt the pain and mourning of those characters being lost felt happy and in good spirits right after from Mallory's infectious optimism...
2 more reviews
this is my favorite game ever. it makes me cry every time i replay it because i love it so much, mallory is such a loveable and cute character. such a cozy, atmospheric, and heartwarming game, beautiful and touching story. 10/10
I beat this game in essentially one sit down playthrough and I was absolutely hooked. This game reminded me so much about the pandemic and the loneliness I felt during it, the fact the game came out during the pandemic certainly shows haha. The chemistry between the two characters is brilliant and It is awesome to see their love blossom and to see them come together. Be warned the game is very short, yet can still...
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Cite this score
Cabin Fever scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1336600/cabin-feverReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.