Miasmata
Skip · Action · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.29/hr
- Reviews▼
- 77% of 1,239
- Critics
- 76 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 21% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11.6h
- To 100%
- 26h 2.2x the story
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 87 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 December 2017
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 70% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
48% start to 1% 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
Across all 87 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 21 percent. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Breathedge ($24.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Salt ($14.99, scores 33).
More about Miasmata
This site sampled 220 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 235 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
11.6 hours to finish it, 26 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 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
This is my first review ever, and I've been building up to it for over a decade, and I now realize that this should without a doubt be the game to gets that first review. You see, this game does something so utterly unique and magical, and it has provided me a wealth of inspiration over many years. I've returned to it many times and each time, it's like coming back to some magical place where I feel at peace (also...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Miasmata is a distinctive and quietly ambitious survival adventure that stands apart from most games in the genre by trusting the player to learn, observe, and endure rather than follow explicit instructions. Developed by IonFx and published by IonFX Studios, the game casts you as a lone scientist shipwrecked on the remote island of Eden while suffering from a mysterious and steadily worsening disease. From the...
There was so much potential, but... It's about survival, but you don't need to build, eat, sleep, and can't defend. It's about exploration, but you can't find sh*t without walking along a road. It's about herbalism, but with the depth of hack'n'slash game. It's like being in Kilimanjaro, but you can't go against 15 degree slope. It's like having GTA SA map size, but you only can run as fast as CJ crouching. It's...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVidia Geforce 8600GT, ATI Radeon 3670HD or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Miasmata scores 43/100 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/223510/miasmataReviews 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.