Survive or Thrive
Worth it · RPG · 2020
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99, a BANGER if it drops to $0.89.
- Length
- 0.4h 0.6h to 100%
- Value
- $4.98/hr
- Reviews
- 98% of 240 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.89 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
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About the game
Crikey, mate! You shouldn't be out here all on your own! There's big MONSTAS' runnin' about! And besides... It's not always the beasts that you gotta watch out for. Beasts are easy to predict! They just wanna kill and eat ya! Humans are much harder... They'll pretend to be your friend first!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1024x768 or better video resolution in High Color mode, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
68 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. $0.89 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sultan's Game ($24.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Yes, Your Grace ($19.99, scores 61).
More about Survive or Thrive
This site sampled 233 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 98 percent of the 227 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 97 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Survive or Thrive approaches the idea of survival from a completely different direction than most games carrying the label. Instead of placing the player in an open wilderness filled with resources to collect and shelters to construct, it turns survival into a psychological exercise built around questions, choices, and hypothetical situations. Developed and published by Randumb Studios, the game is essentially an...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Survive or Thrive scores 71/100 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/1397030/survive-or-thriveReviews 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.