Bloodshore
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Value
- $9.37/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 87% ($1.94)
- Last discount ended
- yesterday
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 11.0 compatible video card, 11 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Bloodshore is an interactive action movie about a televised battle royale between high-profile streamers, entertainers and death row inmates. You control the fate of Nick, a washed-up actor who fights for a life-changing cash prize.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.94. That was May 2024. It has been discounted 45 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended yesterday.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. On the same math Not For Broadcast ($24.99, scores 67) and Erica ($11.99, scores 40) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
2 of the 555 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 330 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.6 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 2.7 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
60% start to 10% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Unfortunately, this is nowhere near as good as the others Wales FMV games. Over-compressed video files, poor acting and a weak story. Usually I would be replaying through these games to find the other endings, but one playthrough was enough for me.
There's no trope I hate more than "dystopian futuristic bloodsport". It's been overdone to hell, nobody is able to find a twist that's actually original and not the generic "Show that half the planet watches cause social media made everyone crazy". Real abuse by powerful people dosen't happen on prime time TV, they do it every day already. They refuse to treat our cancers and let us die to save pennies for their...
Keeps freezing on steam deck, no Skip or smaller rewinds when you have to leave the game after it froze. Still playable if you're patient/don't mind repeating the repetitive scenes. 5.5/10. 9.2/10 if fixed
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bloodshore scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1490840/bloodshoreReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.
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