The Infected
Skip · Shooter · 2020 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $15.99.
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 7,041
- Genre rank
- Top 50% Shooter
Holding it back: Early access, Cost per hour, est. length
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Price and sales
- Sales
- 50 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $6.99 April 2021
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 85 now
- Cheaper than
- 32% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 65% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 50 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 50 percent. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Green Hell ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Project Castaway ($19.99, scores 10).
More about The Infected
Of the 599 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 369 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 619 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 6 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Infected scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1360000/the-infectedReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.