Iron Lung
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2022.
- Length
- 1.2h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($5.19)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($3.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: Any made within the last decade, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
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
January 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 5 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record. $2.63 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
At full price it scores 66. The current cut is what makes it a 78.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Fingerbones (free, scores 52) and The Moon Sliver ($1.99, scores 42).
Steam's global achievement data puts 43 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 29 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 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 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 640 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 6,926 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 69 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 43% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 13:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Picked it on sale after seeing the movie trailer and wanting to experience the original story first. This game is a short, deeply unsettling experience that's roughly the same length as the film itself, that trades cheap jump scares for suffocating tension. While the tight cockpit is a bit too claustrophobic for my liking, the oppressive underblood atmosphere and the story setting pull you in completely. Having now...
I love this game, the way the story goes! the lore, oh my god the LORE! honestly either mentioning the word "Iron" or "Lung" makes me thing of this game, great game David. (Also- play squirrel stapler first cause its the PREQUEL!) I've gone through so much of the lore in the terminal so much so i can confirm half of my 3 hours of playing is just me searching things in the terminal.
Recommended by a friend that like shorror games, I gave Iron Lung a try. Now, this is a quite short game: I completed it under an hour and managed to get the 100% in a total of 75 minutes. It is also very simplistic: navigate with a coordinate system with the aid of a map while avoiding obstacles... and other obstacles. Sometimes things will happen that will get catch you by surprise and startle you, while watching...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Iron Lung scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1846170/iron-lungReviews 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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