From the Depths
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 81% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870 / Intel HD Graphics 4000, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
July 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 44 in the 12 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Trailmakers ($7.49, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Empyrion - Galactic Survival ($19.99, scores 56).
Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 81 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 26 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 654 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
48% 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
482 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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From the Depths scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/268650/from-the-depthsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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