Mark of the Deep
Skip · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 14.6h 18.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.37/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 357 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Shipwrecked on a myth-shrouded island, play as rookie pirate Marcus “Rookie” Ramsey and explore haunting biomes, face unforgiving combat, and unravel a deep-sea curse in search of your lost crew, the Angry Mermaids.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM / DirectX 10+ support, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 17 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 72 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Foregone ($19.99, scores 53) and Pronty ($4.49, scores 70) both outscore it.
More about Mark of the Deep
This site sampled 226 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 14.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
69% start to 3% 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
What players say
If I ever hold the A (Roll) button for slightly too long, the game puts me in some weird toggled state where hitting the X (Attack) button also makes me roll. This toggle does not turn off unless I do a short tap of the A button, after which, the Attack button functions normally again. this killed me more times than i care to recall. it became so frustrating that i stopped playing. there is a forum post with the...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Soooo much potential but hindered by annoyances Pros: Game is actually fun and graphics are fine for what the game is. Cons: The controls suck. Trying to aim your hook to cross an opening is annoying as heck. You'll die multiple times with your hook missing the target and attaching to walls and pulling you towards death. There's no aim assist for it or at least an auto attach to the target. Character will randomly...
Just not all that inspired or exciting to me. It feels like some of the early progression/items/abilities should happen sooner. Instead it takes a while to obtain what seem like pretty basic/core abilities and items that would have made the gameplay better if you got them within the first 10-15 minutes instead of more than an hour later. There are still loads of upgrades and items to collect, so it's not like...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Mark of the Deep scores 33/100 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/1933370/mark-of-the-deepReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.