Infested Planet
Worth it · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 87% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9487% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.14/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 3,053
- Critics
- 75 players 19 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.94 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7h
- To 100%
- 16.6h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 36
Price and sales
- Sales
- 130 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.94 June 2021
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 130 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.82. The record reaches that level 118 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Anomaly: Warzone Earth ($1.59, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Revenge of the Titans ($14.99, scores 52).
More about Infested Planet
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 345 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
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...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
fun game. scratches that old school RTS itch. I'd buy the sequel if they made it. happy hunting!
Game gets much more boring later. I burned out on some kind of last stand random mission. There was no indication it would be indefinite mission where I have to eventually lose, so I had to run game on second screen and switch to it when once in 5 minutes a swarm spawned. In the end they got so strong from mutations that I lost. Meh, first 70% of the game are reasonably interesting but not ground breaking. Pick this...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB OpenGL 2.1 Compartible, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Infested Planet scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204530/infested-planetReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.