Subside
Fair · Strategy · 2024
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. A BANGER at $8.50, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2024 (lowest $14.99, Dec 2025).
- Length
- 3.8h
- Value
- $6.58/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($19.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($14.99)
- Last discount ended
- 9 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1080 / Radeon RX 6800S, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Subside is an immersive aquatic VR experience with multiple areas to explore and lifelike aquatic creatures to interact with. Crafted with unparalleled realism, it aims to replicate the nuances of real-life swimming and diving in shallow waters
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was December 2025. It has been discounted 9 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 13 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.50. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including PLAYNE : The Meditation Game ($14.99, scores 60) and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 ($69.99, scores 8).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 317 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 177 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 3.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Subside scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2550040/subsideReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.
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