Antarctica 88
Fair · Shooter · 2020
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1h 1.7h to 100%
- Value
- $5.99/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 277 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Uncover the chilling secrets beneath the Antarctic ice in this survival horror FPS. Shoot unimaginable creatures, solve cryptic puzzles, and fight for your life in the frozen wastelands.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.59, set in June 2024. Across all 52 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 39 percent on value. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Poppy Playtime (free, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats MADiSON ($34.99, scores 47).
More about Antarctica 88
Of the 256 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 175 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 68 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Very buggy, bad animations (T-posing enemies when shot), doors that won't work after a while, unclear level design and a lot of translation errors. Feels like a free game, but even there I've seen so many better ones.
1 more review, not recommended
Clearly a mobile game port with a couple hours of playtime to get the best ending and no reason to replay. The graphics are serviceable and the models for the monsters look like they came from a Unity asset store. I bought it because I love The Thing and thought it looked similar, but this is pure shovelware. Go buy The Thing Remastered instead -- I'm truly puzzled how this game has a 'Very Positive' rating. On a...
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Cite this score
Antarctica 88 scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1383630/antarctica-88Reviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.