Skin Deep
Worth it · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.44. Typically $12.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.17/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 1,807
- Critics
- 79 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.44 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.2h
- To 100%
- 12.9h 1.4x the story
- Finish
- 20% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 17
Price and sales
- Sales
- 13 on record
- Typical cut
- 35% off
- Steam low
- $11.99 April 2026
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
90% start to 20% 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
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 13 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. $9.44 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Its score sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Thief Simulator ($1.79, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Prey ($29.99, scores 69).
More about Skin Deep
The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 394 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 195 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 16 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Fun mission based immersive sim with an emphasis on different systems interacting with each other. Reminds me of Void Bastards/SS2 but with more player freedom.
2 more reviews
The game is great, but I wish all the characters stayed with the iconic Blendo games style, not just the cats.
imsim distillate: the video game. not gonna blow your socks off, but it's a fun game for 10 hours. also it's on idtech4 and open source (well, the code is under GPL, the assets are not).
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this stellar sandbox. You're outnumbered, outgunned, and have no shoes. Welcome to Skin Deep!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, 1GB or AMD Radeon HD 8570, 2GB or Intel UHD Graphics 620, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Skin Deep scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/301280/skin-deepReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.