Gem Defender: Soyjak Survivors
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.39, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2023.
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 41% ($2.35)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any OpenGL 1-compatible, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Follow Chud on his fight against Dr Soystein's 'jak army in this spine-tingling survival shooter. NOW FEATURING BADLANDSCHUGS
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 $2.35. That was July 2025. 7 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 18 weeks apart. Today's $2.39 at 40 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Geometry Arena ($5.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats 20 Minutes Till Dawn ($4.99, scores 74).
Of the 355 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 543 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 53 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
83% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 14:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Gem Defender: Soyjak Survivors scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2599270/gem-defender-soyjak-survivorsReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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