Desperate Place
Skip · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $10.99.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $2.75/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 300 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvdia Geforce GTX 750, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 13 times in the 1 year tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 71 percent of its genre. Cluckmech Oasis ($9.99, scores 69) outscores it, and so does X-Morph: Defense ($19.99, scores 68). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The drop-off
95% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 18:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Feels a bit raw: 1. UI has typos, missing translation, fails to give some information about changes on upgrading tower etc. 2. Controls are somewhat confusing (would love to build with my mouse, not by running to some spot on the other side of the map or swapping 20 buildings with drone) 3. Gameplay-wise I dislike how crew all have some downsides. I dislike how you need to spend medals to activate tactical...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Solid "eh". Superficially it's a fairly decent tower defense game with pretty art style. But it lacks both heart and depth, making it feel stale fairly quickly. Personally I'm also not a big fan of the game telling me which building I'm allowed to build at spot X. You pretty much get what you see in the steam preview, but not much more.
Good tower defense game. Story feels loosely translated which creates some fun moments. Love the shoot em up aspect where I can also help in the tower defense. There are many characters that you can choose from and they will open up as you play. However, so far the only viable one is the first one you play with. The game works great on handheld PC's and I don't imagine that it needs that strong of a hardware to run...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Desperate Place scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3058140/desperate-placeReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.