Primal Carnage
Skip · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews▼
- 76% of 5,788
- Critics
- 67 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 44% Shooter
Holding it back: Refunds, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6h
- To 100%
- 20h 3.3x the story
- Finish
- 4% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 67
Price and sales
- Sales
- 53 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.79 June 2016
- Sale every
- 46d last May 2023
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 45% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
92% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
53 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 179 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 44 percent. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dino D-Day ($9.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats ORION: Prelude ($9.99, scores 45).
More about Primal Carnage
The press gave it 67; the people who bought it give it 76 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 425 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 134 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 1,478 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6 hours; clearing it takes 20, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 1252 days ago.
- 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
What players say
Another classic. While Extinction did fix a lot, I still remember the original fondly.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I've been playing this game since my childhood, and my dad and I spent countless hours enjoying it together. It gave us plenty of good and funny memories.
I've played this game years ago, and I had fun doing so. However, having played it recently; it seems to be a dead game. Zero players online on any of the servers. I don't recommend purchasing this in it's current state due to this.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, ATI 3850HD 512 MB or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Primal Carnage scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/215470/primal-carnageReviews 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.