Stowaway

Stowaway

Skip · Multiplayer · 2020 · Early Access

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 31, under the fair line, at $0.79.

Length
0.8h 0.9h to 100%
Value
$0.99/hr
Reviews
74% of 552 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Holding it back
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
Value$0.99/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 410 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

An 10 player online social deduction game inspired by games like Among Us & Town of Salem, where the stowaway is tasked with killing the crew before they reach land!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 3000, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

December 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. It has been discounted 4 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 9 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Liar's Bar ($6.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Enemy On Board (free, scores 26).

More about Stowaway

5 of the 410 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 304 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 71 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

Stowaway, developed and published by Sandstorm Studios Inc., is a multiplayer social deduction game that transports the familiar "impostor" formula into a fully realized 3D pirate ship setting. Designed for groups of players who enjoy deception, teamwork, and unpredictable human behavior, the game builds its core identity around trust and betrayal on the high seas. Rather than relying on abstract maps or simplified...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 11hFeb 2026early accessRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Warning: Dead PVP Game This game has no meaningful single player content, and no playable PvP servers. There is no functioning PvP population, it's a dead game, and cannot be played as intended. I'm not really sure if Stowaway is an asset flip. Some elements of this game certainly make it seem like the developer put some effort into assembling some kind of original here. On the other hand, a lot of the game assets...
Obey the Fist!Not recommendedafter 4.7hFeb 2025early accessRead on Steam

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

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Stowaway scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1428470/stowaway
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 6. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSandstorm Studios Inc.
PublisherSandstorm Studios Inc.
GenreMultiplayer
Released2020
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate