Infested Planet
Worth it · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.89.
- Length
- 7h
- Value
- $2.14/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB OpenGL 2.1 Compartible, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
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.
The value story
June 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $1.94. It has been discounted 128 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 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. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.89. The record reaches that level 116 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath ($12.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Revenge of the Titans ($14.99, scores 39).
The press gave it 75; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.
None of the 343 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 161 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7 hours; clearing it takes 17, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
83% start to 5% 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
6 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
An very good little game that combines tower defense with real-time strategy in a surprisingly deep and strategic way. It looks simple at first, but the constant pressure from the enemy forces you to think quickly and make decisions on the fly before you get completely overwhelmed. The gameplay is very satisfying and offers a lot more depth than is simple presentation suggests. My only real complaint is that it is a...
fun game. scratches that old school RTS itch. I'd buy the sequel if they made it. happy hunting!
If you have stumbled over this older gem and are reading the reviews your probably thinking about buying the game. ...I can tell you that it's well worth the money. I highly recommend it.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Infested Planet scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204530/infested-planetThe 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 Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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