Species: Unknown
Fair · Action · 2025 · Early Access
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 20% off today.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB Desktop (or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile), 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in September 2026. It has been discounted 6 times in the 11 months tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales. Today's $7.99 at 20 percent off still sits 7 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ragnarock ($24.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats ODDCORE ($10.39, scores 63).
This site sampled 789 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 40 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 951 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Players
479 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 18:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Species: Unknown scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2747330/species-unknownReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 2.
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