Organ Trail: Director's Cut
Worth it · Roguelike · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.7h
- Value
- $1.85/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.
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How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.69. That was October 2021. 62 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Terminus: Zombie Survivors ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Infectonator: Survivors ($0.99, scores 17).
1 of the 377 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 405 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 19, 6.9 times as much.
The drop-off
42% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 2.7-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
6 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Pretty fun, despite the controller integration not working. Keyboard and mouse is all you really need for a simple game like this. I completed it in 6 hours on Normal difficulty on my first playthrough.
the control scheme for the on foot sections is complete ass. an entire run ruined at the very end because of the ass backwards aiming controls. ♥♥♥.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Organ Trail: Director's Cut scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/233740/organ-trail-director-s-cutThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 7, price as of Sep 24.
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