Contagion
Skip · Multiplayer · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hour
- $0.46/hr
- Reviews▼
- 73% of 15,752
- Critics
- 62 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 36% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Refunds, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 21.9h
- Achievements
- 165
Price and sales
- Sales
- 93 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 February 2016
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 28 now
- Cheaper than
- 34% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 52% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
32% start to <1% rarestA 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
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 93 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 36 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre. Killing Floor 2 ($2.99, scores 66) outscores it, and so does DayZ ($49.99, scores 52). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Contagion
62 from critics against 73 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 155 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 5 of the 17 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 2,072 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 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 game... Every now and then I return to it - mostly solo - and sink in its atmosphere and pacing. The few times I've had friends to join - it was some of the best coop out there. Contagion is a zombie shooter that isn't arcady but neither is overbearingly grounded where you have to manage a myriad of extra systems like hunger, weight or temperature. It's raw, a clunky, clearly undercooked, but I'll be damned if...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
this is a fun game and can ge t genuinely creepy well worth the low asking price
Will I still play this game post review? Possibly, that being said after having this game for a decade+ I only have 7.4 hours as of this review if that's any indication. This CAN be a fun game, and I recall getting this game back near release (2013), but my god this game can be brutal. Think of L4D2 except you have a wonky phone that gives you no information (sometimes you run around for ages trying to find what the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Contagion scores 34/100 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/238430/contagionReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.