Bootstrap Island
Fair · Roguelike · 2026
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 82% 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
- 4 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, Nvidia RTX 2070, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
A highly realistic VR survival roguelike adventure set on a ruthless 17th-century tropical island. Shipwrecked and alone, you must survive without guidance as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe. Every decision is yours. Your survival is in your own hands!
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
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $16.24. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 27 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 49 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Sons Of The Forest ($29.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Between the Stars ($29.99, scores 35).
Of the 540 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 17 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 20 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 381 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
36% 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
22 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 14:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bootstrap Island scores 53/100 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/1942110/bootstrap-islandReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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