Out There Somewhere
Fair · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$0.9990% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $6.24/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 6,921
- Genre rank
- Top 17% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.6h
- To 100%
- 4.8h 3.0x the story
- Finish
- 11% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 36
Price and sales
- Sales
- 102 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.19 April 2015
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
30% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 102 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $3.60 BANGER line 29 times.
Its score puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, VVVVVV ($4.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats La-Mulana ($14.99, scores 58).
More about Out There Somewhere
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 363 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 2,613 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
1.6 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 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
What players say
Buy this game only on sale, and only if you are terminantly bored. That is: the game itself is a cool, short one. Feels like it was quickly made, like a project of technical feats for a learning dev team. The mechanics are cool and quirky, but the bullet hell sections, the story, music, and art direction are lacking to me. None of those things are cathegorical issues, UNLESS, you are willing to buy it for the...
2 more reviews
⭐ A Short but Clever Pixel-Art Adventure 🎮 Introduction Out There Somewhere is one of those small indie games that gets a surprising amount of mileage out of a simple idea. It starts off straightforward, but it doesn't take long to realize that the real focus is on movement, precision, and solving environmental puzzles. It's short, focused, and full of personality. Instead of stretching a simple concept into a huge...
surprisingly a fun platformer. I would wait until it goes on sale but otherwise I enjoyed playing it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Out There Somewhere scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/263980/out-there-somewhereReviews 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.