SOMA
Worth it · Action · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $13.63.
- Length
- 9.1h
- Value
- $3.30/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 / AMD Radeon HD 5750. OpenGL 3.3, 25 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was December 2024. 94 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $13.63. The record reaches that level 84 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Amnesia: The Dark Descent ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Amnesia: Rebirth ($29.99, scores 36).
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 12 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,758 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
At 9.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
68% start to 31% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
57 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Easily on the most unique experiences I've had playing videogames. first off, the horror aspect of the game. SOMA will make you realize what we fear isn't what we're prone to fear. So instead of throwing some cheap, loud jumpscares at you it tries its best to make you feel how you WOULD feel if you were to close your eyes and wake up 100 years or so from now (although yes, as a psychological horror game it does a...
Wauw.. one of my favorite psychological horror games. It made me question my whole existence 10/10. ♥♥♥♥ the underwater section.
Near perfect game, decent gameplay, amazing horror, genuis and thought provoking story. Made me tear up almost once during the game. Only probelm i have is that i wish that there where better puzzles.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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SOMA scores 70/100 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/282140/somaThe 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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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