Feed the Deep
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.6h 18h to 100%
- Value
- $2.69/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 484 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 12 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
A lovecraftian roguelike. Dive into procedurally generated undersea caves. Collect gold, upgrade your equipment, and Feed the Deep.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000 Series, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 21 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 29 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Eldritch ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats SUNLESS SEA ($18.99, scores 62).
More about Feed the Deep
8 of the 354 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 59 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 239 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 18, 6.9 times as much.
At 2.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
61% 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
What players say
Didn't think this game would be so much fun - I can really recommend this one! The gameplay is pretty simplistic. You mainly gather resources and bring them up top before your air tank runs out, then level up, and dive back down to complete your main objectives. It's still very challenging which I really liked! If you haven't leveled up yet, you are swimming really slow when towing resources, then you have to decide...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
bloody amazing game, I'm honestly addicted. -no impossible enemies -great graphics -cool story -makes you fear the ocean
Game feels too dark and slow. Maybe its my own ability to get lost, but swimming around in the dark running into dead ends and running out of air and needing to go back doesn't feel great. Would maybe feel better if there were some kind of vague mapping system to remember the last place I was exploring so I could get back there a bit easier. There are items to aid exploration, but their usefulness is somewhat...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Feed the Deep 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/2332260/feed-the-deepReviews 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.