UnderRail

UnderRail

Worth it · RPG · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$4.4970% offWorth it

Cost per hourS
$0.26/hr
Reviews▼
86% of 7,291
Critics
72 players 14 higher
Genre rank
Top 5% RPG

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
58.6h
To 100%
129.9h 2.2x the story
Achievements
55

Price and sales

Sales
50 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$3.74 March 2026
Sale every
83d last October 2026
Lowest now $13.49 at Fanaticalall-time low $2.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
84 now
Cheaper than
22% of its genre
Better reviewed
89% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

65% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

50 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Stellar Tactics ($24.99, scores 31) and Wasteland 2: Director's Cut ($29.99, scores 65).

More about UnderRail

72 from critics against 86 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 296 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 58.6 hours. Doing everything runs 130, 2.2 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.74 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.26/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Hands down one of my favorite modern CRPG's. It is a puzzle game in disguise every encounter is a puzzle to be solved and your build is how you solve it.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 243h10 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Gotta be the most impressive CRPG and turn based tactics game out there, so incredibly fun and replayable
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 43hOct 2026Read on Steam
One shot the final boss in a single turn using my bare fists without interacting with any of its fight's mechanics 11/10
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 108hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GPU that supports shader model 2.0, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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UnderRail scores 72/100 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/250520/underrail
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Reviews 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.

Critics vs players+14
Critics72
Players86
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 7,291 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperStygian Software
PublisherStygian Software
GenreRPG
Released2015
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements55