Unturned
Worth it · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it at free.
- Length
- 21.8h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
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
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Nomad (free, scores 6) and Fallen Earth Classic (free, scores 7), are both worse buys on this math.
Steam's global achievement data says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 21.8-hour game, that is a lot of evenings most people never spend. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 616 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 21.8 hours. Doing everything runs 120, 5.5 times as long.
It came out 9 years ago and 10.4K were still playing it at the last check.
It is still busy. 10.4K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. It takes its money later, through cosmetic and unlock.
The drop-off
49% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 21.8-hour game, that's a lot of time most people never put in. Steam global achievements
Players
10.4K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Unturned scores 81/100 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/304930/unturnedThe 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 10.
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