Arid
Fair · Action · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 1,965
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Action
Holding it back: Reach, Reviews
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5h
- To 100%
- 14h 2.8x the story
- Finish
- 4% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 39
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Green Hell ($24.99, scores 60) and ICARUS ($34.99, scores 40), are both worse buys on this math.
It is still busy. 3 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 5, 20:48 UTC, across 28 days of weekly checks.
More about Arid
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5-hour game, that is a lot of evenings the rest never spend.
5 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
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
About the game
Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX1050 Ti / AMD Radeon 570, 4GB VRAM, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Arid scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1463730/aridReviews 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 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.