Above Snakes
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 35, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 14.4h
- Value
- $1.74/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
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 $6.24. That was September 2025. It has been discounted 27 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 45 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 40 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Starbound ($14.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Voidtrain ($29.99, scores 32).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 14.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 707 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
At 14.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
91% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 14.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
I wanted this game to be a good one, so bear with me when I write my thoughts down. - If you expect any kind of help in terms of how to finish a quest or get there. There will be near none. You will be stuck at points, confused why you can't get further. Just to find out online you need certain material to upgrade weapons/tools to get further. - Fishing is hard -> mostly because it takes multiple days till you can...
..apart from the other issues mentioned, the day/night cycle is too fast....I assume you'll unlock something for the night but still..
One of the better indie games I have played lately. Fun concept in terms of being able to 'world build' your own map as the game unfolds. I personally found the 'Wild West' theme to be slightly watered down from what I was expecting but it did not subtract from the game itself. The game also has zombies which is easy to miss if you only look at the screenshots provided in the steam store and not the trailer/gameplay...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Above Snakes scores 35/100 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/1589120/above-snakesReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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