Kong: Survivor Instinct
Skip · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 6.3h 6.9h to 100%
- Value
- $3.97/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 374 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $14.99 (40% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 45 days apart.
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
When giant monsters fight, no one’s safe. Embark on a thrilling quest of survival in a city that’s become a battleground for Titans. Use the lethal strength of Kong and other monsters to your own advantage in this official Monsterverse game set shortly after the events of Godzilla vs. Kong.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2GB / AMD Radeon RX 460 2GB, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 19 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre. On the same math Guacamelee! 2 ($4.99, scores 83) and Pronty ($4.49, scores 70) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Kong: Survivor Instinct
Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 334 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
82% start to 30% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 11:58 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Looks good. Story is mediocre. (I'm being generous here) Exploration is okay. Puzzles are easy. Combat is a source for frustration. (until you discover bullets appear out of thin air when needed) Titan combat would be fun to watch if you weren't too busy pixel jumping to get out of the way. Too short. It has spiders. Watching a full playthrough on YT is more fun.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Visually, the game looks quite nice for an indie title, and the Titan backdrop actually hit the right spot for me. However, that doesn't help much when the actual gameplay feels incredibly clunky. The controls are extremely stiff, turning the high-stakes Titan chase sequences into a major source of frustration-deaths rarely feel like your own fault, but rather the result of sluggish mechanics. On top of that, combat...
This is a very conditional recommend, as overall, while I enjoyed the game and would give it a 6/10 personally, it's got quite a few things holding it back from being a universal recommend to fans of 2D Metroidavania-lites, including the fact that you absolutely need to be a fan of the source material to enjoy it. Also recommend at $15 or less only. Basically, this is a "sequel" to Godzilla VS Kong, while utilizing...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kong: Survivor Instinct scores 28/100 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/2769080/kong-survivor-instinctReviews 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.