Soulmask
Skip · RPG · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 12h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 63% over the last 30 days against 77% all-time.
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 16 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, GTX 970 4GB / AMD RX 580 4GB, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
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
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $19.49. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 5 months tracked here, most recently in August 2026. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 37 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Night of the Dead ($29.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Out of Reach ($14.99, scores 2).
Players rate it 77 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 63 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 1,171 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
86% start to <1% 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
1,670 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 06:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Recommended - but with a big asterisk. Soulmask is a genuinely ambitious and impressive survival game. It has a great atmosphere, deep systems, interesting tribe management, strong progression ideas, and some of the coolest concepts I have seen in the genre. The Shifting Sands expansion especially has a lot of ideas I really wanted to love, including the flying bases. The problem is that the game currently has two...
It's a good game, though the captured workers and warriors die too easily and leveling up is a bit of a grind. Overall, however, it's fun and offers an engaging experience that keeps you entertained for a long time. --- + ...+
I love survival crafters, so I really wanted this game to click, but I just can't bring myself to love it. I'm going to sink a few more hours in to see if it grows on me, but right now it's a bit of a slog. Base building feels terrible early on because you have to craft every piece before placing it; it only becomes functional once you get the hammer. The tribe mechanic is also pretty fiddly, and the tutorial...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Soulmask scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2646460/soulmaskReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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