Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut

Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut

Fair · RPG · 2012

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 0 of 8 sales

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour▼
$2.44/hr
Reviews▼
85% of 1,307
Critics
81 players 4 higher
Genre rank
Top 10% RPG

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
4.1h
To 100%
10.4h 2.5x the story

Price and sales

Sales
30 on record
Typical cut
40% off
Steam low
$2.49 April 2013
Sale every
87d last June 2026
All-time low $2.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1 now
Cheaper than
38% of its genre
Better reviewed
86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

April 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. 30 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart.

Its score puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit ($19.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Decarnation ($14.99, scores 58).

More about Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut

Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 217 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 4.1 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 2.5 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

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

Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.44/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 95 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

What players say

Fell in love with atmosphere and scares, but survival mechanics was too punishing. It felt like I beat a half of the game, but I've just barely got everything for a working stove. Main issue was a map. It's disorienting and game doesen't gave me enought shortcuts in my poinion so I need to do alot of backtracking with a map like that. I've just dropped it after I've reach a basement, because suffering throught...
SpellShellNot recommendedafter 3.1hJan 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Any with hardware 3D acceleration, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/209830/lone-survivor-the-director-s-cut
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Reviews 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.

Critics vs players+4
Critics81
Players85
Metacritic critics · 1,307 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperJasper Byrne
PublisherSuperflat Games
GenreRPG
Released2012
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate