Project Castaway
Skip · RPG · 2026
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 65% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 16 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Smalland: Survive the Wilds ($34.99, scores 56) and Nightingale ($29.99, scores 16) both outscore it.
17 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 531 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 334 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
26% start to <1% 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
37 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 20:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Project Castaway scores 10/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1713350/project-castawayReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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