EMPTY SHELL
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $4.91, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2023. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $1.17/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 861 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 59% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel Graphics HD 2GB or equivalent, 287 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 32 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $4.91 at 59 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 29 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Blazing Beaks ($14.99, scores 54).
More about EMPTY SHELL
Of the 378 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 146 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 174 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
74% start to 7% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
A hopeless host of individuals differing in their own unfortunate circumstances are united in a goal. To make their way through a tormented facility filled with imitations of life. To either end a horror beyond comprehension or to further fuel humanity's greed to explore the unknown even at a morbid cost. This games atmosphere, story and gritty graphics come together to suck you in and make you experience the tense...
2 more reviews
this game made me EMPTY my SHELL. and by shell.. haha.. lets justr say... my LARGE CALIBER REVOLVER buy this game, you wont regret it
Sehr atmosphärischer Twin-Stick-Shooter. Ich selbst spiele kaum Horror-Games, das hier hats mir total angetan. Den Grafikstil kann man in den Trailern bewundern. Sich selbst in dieser reduzierten Welt zu bewegen, das Alleinsein in dieser mitunter verstörend wirkenden Umgebung - Geil.
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Cite this score
EMPTY SHELL scores 63/100 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/2243110/empty-shellReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.