Submerged
Skip · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Value
- $8.33/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 9800GTX or ATI Radeon HD 4770, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.
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.
The value story
October 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 92 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. A Short Hike ($7.99, scores 80) and AER Memories of Old ($14.99, scores 55) both outscore it.
The press gave it 47; the people who bought it give it 76 percent. A 29-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 602 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 1,066 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.4 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 2.2 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
32% start to 25% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1 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
Fun game, easy to play, simple puzzles, and interesting story. No dialogue, just pictures and characters actions. It's laid back and open to interpretation.
A great adventure game that is a pretty relaxing play. I am looking forward to any future sequels to this game.
A very boring and clumsy platformer under the guise of a "cute" exploration game. Note that I finished the game in 90 minutes. Doesn't cost more than a dollar.
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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Submerged scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/301860/submergedThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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