Nomad Survival

Nomad Survival

Fair · Roguelike · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $3.49, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 30%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.

Length
15.7h
Value
$0.22/hr
Reviews
84% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Typical seasonal cut
30% ($3.49)

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
15.7h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
37.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.22
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$3.49
as of Oct 1
Reviews
84%
2,193 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2GB VRAM Graphics Cards, 61 MB of storage. Windows only.

Battle against hordes of enemies, conquer Boss encounters, and explore various character and skill combinations in this time-based auto-attacking Roguelite in your quest to become stronger and defeat the most menacing of creatures that lay in wait at the end of each run.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.22/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead That is today's sale price. Normally $0.32/hr
Length16 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 487 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $2.09, set in November 2022. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 28 in the 4 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today's $3.49 at 30 percent off still sits 67 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

Value puts it in the top 39 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Karate Survivor ($1.49, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot ($4.99, scores 49).

3 of the 487 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 172 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 15.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 37, 2.4 times as much.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

The drop-off

84% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:04 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I actually like this one a lot, i like how each class has separate little offshoots. Like for instance when you pick crusader, you can unlock a version that's called berserker where you do double damage but cannot heal in any way. It just changes the way you strategize your build and it adds a layer of fun for me.
MizRecommendedafter 12hAug 2026Read on Steam
The game plays fine mechanically, but the pacing is just not good. Other games like the original Vampire Survivors and Halls of Torment do a much better job of having clear phases in the enemy spawns, times to farm, times to move toward targets on the map, and generally keeping a suitable level of pressure as you level up. This game fails in that regard. Sometimes there are spikes in enemies, then for no reason a...
neonharvestNot recommendedafter 3.3hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Nomad Survival scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1929870/nomad-survival
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperThe Fox Knocks
PublisherThe Fox Knocks
GenreRoguelike
Released2022
Achievements116