Sunkenland

Sunkenland

Fair · Multiplayer · 2023 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
80% of 24,053 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
Refunds11 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 17 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Necesse ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Project Castaway ($9.99, scores 12).

More about Sunkenland

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 1,756 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

7% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Sunkenland scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2080690/sunkenland
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Reviews 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 Oct 16, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperVector3 Studio
PublisherVector3 Studio
GenreMultiplayer
Released2023
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements107