Unturned

Unturned

Worth it · Shooter · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
ReviewsS
91% of 564,965
Genre rank
Top 5% Shooter

Holding it back: Monetization

Time and effort

Main story
21.7h
To 100%
119h 5.5x the story
Finish
<1% reach the ending
Achievements
95

Players and genre

Online
16,774 now
Recent reviews
85% 30 days
Better reviewed
87% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

49% start to <1% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. 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.

It is still busy. 16.8K players were online when we last checked, on Nov 4, 21:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks. Free to start. It takes its money later, through cosmetic and unlock.

More about Unturned

Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 21.7-hour game, that is a lot of evenings the rest never spend. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 614 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 21.7 hours. Doing everything runs 119, 5.5 times as long.

The rating rests on 564,965 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.

Buy now or wait

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

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75M+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
Engagement0% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
MonetizationCosmetic, Unlock
Paid extras, but no loot boxes or currency. A light touch
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesCosmetic, UnlockPCGamingWiki

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Unturned scores 81/100 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/304930/unturned
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperSmartly Dressed Games
PublisherSmartly Dressed Games
GenreShooter
Released2017
Players75.0Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements95