Shelter
Skip · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7475% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $11.53/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 3,719
- Genre rank
- Top 31% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.3h
- To 100%
- 2.2h 1.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 81 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.74 September 2026
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 82% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 81 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Endling - Extinction is Forever ($29.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Shelter 2 ($24.99, scores 42).
More about Shelter
This site sampled 371 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 1,744 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 65 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
A short adventure game where you learn what it means to be a mother as you guide your children through 5 levels while evading threats and gathering food. getting 2/5 out alive isn't too bad...right? im sorry my three sweet babies that didn't make it
2 more reviews
(5/5★) The game Shelter One is a survival-based game that tells a story of motherhood. It makes you put yourself into the position of a mother badger who is trying to feed and nurture her children and protect them. While I was playing the game, I named each of my little badger children. Mini Me, Skunk, Pierce, Needle, and Ferret. {Yes, the names are a little weird do not judge me..} During the playthrough I lost...
This game is FIRE!!! You go through 5 chapters, and try to feed your 5 kits, protect them from danger, and get them to safety. This game should only be played by players 8 and up, as your cubs can die.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Experience the wild as a badger sheltering your cubs from harm. On your journey, you will be stalked by birds of prey, encounter perils of the night, cross fierce rivers, escape forest fires and face the looming threat of starvation. Food is to be found, but is there enough for everyone?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 400 series, ATI Radeon HD 2xxx, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Shelter scores 44/100 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/244710/shelterReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.