The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation
Skip · RPG · 2023 · Early Access
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 14, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 14h 120h to 100%
- Value
- $2.14/hr
- Reviews
- 66% of 442 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.
- 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
About the game
Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1050 / AMD RX 590, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 17 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Noble Fates ($24.99, scores 37) and Going Medieval ($29.99, scores 67) both outscore it.
More about The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation
4 of the 395 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 14 hours; clearing it takes 120, which is 8.6 times the campaign.
What players say
Game was fun and had a lot of potential but is completely abandoned. Do not waste your money.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Developers seemingly abandoned this game, last update was back in 2024. Shame, it seemed like an interesting game.
The game could have been finished already with a little Story, unfortunately devs focused on weird stuff like instream-interactions and replaybility. It's still suffering from bugs here and there and got abandoned.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1734390/the-pioneers-surviving-desolationReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.