Exodus Borealis

Exodus Borealis

Fair · Strategy · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $4.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jun 2021. Buy it now if you want it.

Length
8h
Value
$0.62/hr
Reviews
87% of 306 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Full price

Fair$19.99

Today

−75%Fair
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.62/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $2.50/hr
Holding it back
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 243 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

In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1050 or AMD RX 560, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was December 2024. 59 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Craft The World ($18.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Bee Island ($6.49, scores 58).

More about Exodus Borealis

None of the 243 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to July 2026.

The drop-off

84% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 02:57 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Exodus Borealis scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1528810/exodus-borealis
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSmug Marmot Studios
PublisherSmug Marmot Studios
GenreStrategy
Released2021
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12