Swallow the Sea
BANGER · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- Length
- 0.2h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
You are a lowly egg cell on a journey through a swollen sea of strange and humanoid fish. Prey on smaller life and growing larger and stronger to perhaps someday be born.
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
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Perfect Vermin (free, scores 80) and Scrap Garden - The Day Before (free, scores 43), are both worse buys on this math.
The main story runs 0.2 hours. Doing everything runs 2, 8.0 times as long.
At 0.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
97% start to 4% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Swallow the Sea scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1511860/swallow-the-seaReviews 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 Sep 26.
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