Murky Divers

Murky Divers

Fair · Multiplayer · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.7h
Value
$3.33/hr
Reviews
88% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.

Next sale
Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
50% ($4.49)
Deepest seasonal cut
56% ($3.95)
Last discount ended
yesterday

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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Length
2.7h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.33
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$8.99
as of Sep 25
Reviews
88%
5,298 reviews, as of Aug 3
Players
350K
owners (estimate)
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ players
How many own it and play it, the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Refunds84 of 800 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
AI contentDisclosed
The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score takes a heavy dock
For context
Value$3.33/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length2.7 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $3.95. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 25 in the 2 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended yesterday.

On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Content Warning ($7.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Nuclear Nightmare ($6.99, scores 52).

84 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 502 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 57 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 8 of the 84 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 862 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

3% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

About 23 players at once, as of Sep 24.

Player counts via SteamSpy.

What players say

I love it, but no one really plays anymore. Make sure you have friends that can play with you.
garyRecommendedafter 1.0h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Very fun with friends! Its one of the best! Gets stuck between roaming around to get batteries etc but its possible to go almost endless.
KuroKumaRecommendedafter 19hAug 2026Read on Steam
horrible connection issues, the graphics are horrible to look at, its hard to navigate without getting a headache, otherwise the game is decent.
MurpNot recommendedafter 5.3hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Murky Divers scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2963880/murky-divers
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Reviews 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 25.

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Details

DeveloperEmbers
PublisherEmbers
GenreMultiplayer
Released2024
Achievements18
AI contentDisclosed on Steam: AI-made content ships in the game