The Stalin Subway
Skip · Shooter · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 5.7h
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 61% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible 128 MB, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
"The Stalin Subway" is a First Person Shooter-style game where the events take place in post-war Moscow. The game allows to plunge into the depressing atmosphere of the Stalin's period and to play as a Soviet officer.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.39, set in November 2022. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 97 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 75 percent off still sits 154 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Painkiller: Black Edition ($1.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Deus Ex: Invisible War ($6.99, scores 5).
6 of the 358 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 65 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 282 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
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It's a great game and and good atmosphere if you embrace all the jank; totally worth it
Adorable and entirely dysfunctional slavjank title. Neither the original game 'Metro-2' nor its Steam release deserve praise, as you have to install a patch and tinker with the settings to even start a new game. If you actually manage to, you'll find inside: weird bespoke engine made just for this game it feels like that has broken movement and allows for uncapped velocity bunnyhopping; annoying gunplay with some...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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The Stalin Subway scores 9/100 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/311140/the-stalin-subwayThe 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 21, price as of Sep 24.
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