How to Survive
Fair · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair 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
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7475% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.48/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 17,109
- Critics
- 60 players 23 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.1h
- To 100%
- 32.9h 3.3x the story
- Finish
- 13% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 43
Price and sales
- Sales
- 104 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.74 June 2015
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 18 now
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 82% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 104 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. The nearest things to it, Welcome to ParadiZe ($2.99, scores 20) and How to Survive 2 ($14.99, scores 27), are both worse buys on this math.
More about How to Survive
The press gave it 60; the people who bought it give it 83 percent. A 23-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 7 of the 640 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 2,772 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.1 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 3.3 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 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
I remember playing this when it first came out on xbox one and this still holds up. the game is still as good as i remember.
1 more review, not recommended
This game is really mediocre. I would give it a neutral review because it is not actually completely bad. But honestly it is not enough to give it a positive review.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Ati 5700 series/NVIDIA GeForce GT240 or equivalent, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
How to Survive scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/250400/how-to-surviveReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.