Buried
Skip · Short indie · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 0.3h 0.4h to 100%
- Value
- $6.63/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 417 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
You wake up buried alive. You are running out of oxygen and you can't remember how you got here. There must be a way out, can you figure it out in time?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce 960 or higher, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
31 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 36 percent on value. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Exit 8 ($3.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Lost in Anomaly ($3.99, scores 10).
More about Buried
Of the 354 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 693 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 26 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 348 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 98 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Buried is a compact first-person horror puzzle game that builds its entire experience around a single, suffocating idea: waking up trapped inside a coffin with no memory and very little time. Developed and published by Authogin, it wastes no effort on exposition or buildup, instead placing the player immediately into a situation defined by darkness, panic, and urgency. This abrupt start is one of its most effective...
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Cite this score
Buried scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2605640/buriedReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.