Skin Deep
Fair · Shooter · 2025
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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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.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was April 2026. It has been discounted 12 times in the 17 months tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Prey ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Far Cry® 2 ($2.99, scores 47).
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 about 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. This site sampled 394 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 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.
The drop-off
90% start to 20% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
31 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Skin Deep scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/301280/skin-deepThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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