NEO Scavenger
Worth it · Roguelike · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7475% off
- Cost per hour
- $1.40/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 5,434
- Critics
- 77 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 10.7h
- To 100%
- 62.4h 5.8x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 June 2017
- Sale every
- 43d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 15 now
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 82% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
72 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Terminus: Zombie Survivors ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Age ($14.99, scores 57).
More about NEO Scavenger
Critics scored it 77. Players sit 13 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 493 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 352 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 62, 5.8 times as much.
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
This game is great, especially on sale for 3 dollars or so. Its a very difficult and punishing roguelike where one wrong move means death. For example, I was perfectly healthy and alive and fine, until I decided to fight someone when I didn't need to. Then he broke my arm and weakened me. Then his backup came and murdered me while I was weakened. For another example, I was at my peak with a fully loaded revolver and...
2 more reviews
cyberpunk hobo warrior simulator! id love to play the whole game but the amount of dog bites i get far outnumber the amount of clean bandages i could reasonably accrue so i keep getting sepsis and dying
One of the first roguelikes that got me into the genre and a funny, weird game. I still think of it from time to time like a decade later which IMO really says something.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128MB of graphics memory, 72 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
NEO Scavenger scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/248860/neo-scavengerReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.