Plains of Pain
Skip · Multiplayer · 2023 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 25% ($14.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 51% ($9.79)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 10 GB of memory, GTX 670 2GB / AMD R9 280 better, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $8.99, set in September 2026. It has been discounted 24 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. The nearest things to it, Last Oasis ($29.99, scores 10) and DUCKSIDE ($14.99, scores 27), are both worse buys on this math.
Of the 461 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 158 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
74% start to <1% 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
48 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 12:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Plains of Pain scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2218970/plains-of-painReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.
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