Survival: Fountain of Youth
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The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $27.99.
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 970 4 GB Full HD resolution, 32 GB of storage. Windows only.
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.79, set in January 2026. It has been discounted 31 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 20 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Green Hell ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Voidtrain ($29.99, scores 33).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 30 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 362 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
96% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
Players
251 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
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Survival: Fountain of Youth scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1967630/survival-fountain-of-youthThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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