Somerville
Skip · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 20, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 3.7h
- Value
- $5.40/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 70% ($5.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 75% ($4.99)
- Last discount ended
- 190 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT 630 / 650m, AMD Radeon HD6570 or equivalent, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
In the wake of catastrophe find the means to make your family whole again.
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
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in February 2026. Its cuts run 65 percent off as a rule. There have been 29 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 27 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, INSIDE ($24.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats The Uncertain: Light At The End ($9.99, scores 14).
This site sampled 499 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 240 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
72% start to 8% 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 04:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A stunning adventure amidst an alien invasion. The atmosphere and visual aesthetics here are top notch. I was often just staring off into the various environments throughout the game. Movement overall feels a bit sluggish. I had no big frustrations getting through more complex segments of the game. However, the main character moves as though they have concrete boots on at all times, like wading through molasses...
The art direction is excellent, though the pacing suffers during the underground segments. These sections felt somewhat prolonged, and certain environments lacked the creativity seen elsewhere, feeling more like "filler" than intentional design. There was also a missed opportunity regarding the narrative: the ambiguity of alien interaction left me wanting more. The ability to communicate or interact with these...
Short sci-fi puzzle game, with incredible visuals and sound design. The gameplay itself and the puzzles are fine, yet not very challenging nor particularly fun. It felt mostly monotonous. What I disliked the most was the ending, though. It is a game about aliens, and in the end, you get to "speak" to them using the color of the different abilities you earned through the game. Depending on what you tell them, the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Somerville scores 20/100 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/1671410/somervilleReviews 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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