AETHUS
BANGER · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.68/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 2,112
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 29.2h
- To 100%
- 41.8h 1.4x the story
- Achievements
- 40
Price and sales
- Sales
- 7 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $13.99 October 2026
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 19 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to 6% rarestThis 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
7 discounts in the 8 months on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including 60 Seconds! Reatomized ($9.99, scores 79) and Train Valley 2 ($14.99, scores 78).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $29.41.
More about AETHUS
13 of the 410 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 742 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 124 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 11 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
About the game
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
AETHUS scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2541530/aethusReviews 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 22, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.