Stranded Deep
Skip · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 22.7h
- Value
- $0.88/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2GB VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
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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
It has never been cheaper than $9.89. That was June 2015. It has been discounted 35 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 33 percent off, with about 13 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 13 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 35 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Green Hell ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Voidtrain ($29.99, scores 33).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 23 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2025 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 1,677 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 86 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 6,035 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% 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
256 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
What a buggy piece of crap. What ever update they did to break the rudder placement has completely ruined the game. No there is nothing in the way, yes I have a floor built, yes it's in the middle of the GD ocean so nothing is blocking it. Can place on the wrong side no problem but the rear of the raft? Nope casue FU that's way. Full realease my butt. Thanks for wasing my time.
Game design and progression is sub-par. As an example, you get poisoned but can't craft antidote until level 3 crafting. That's just amateurish. Even though you don't play perma-death, it's still basically permadeath if you get poisoned early on because you reload at your last save with the exact same stats. UI is also lacking. Menus have little feedback and difficult to navigate. Help system is almost non-existent...
I played for about 30 minutes and ended up asking for a refund. My intention was to play Stranded Deep in co-op, but the experience was really frustrating. The save takes way too long to sync in co-op, and items keep disappearing all the time. On top of that, the tutorial doesn't appear in co-op and is only available in single-player. For a game that was released in 2022, I expected issues like these to have been...
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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Stranded Deep scores 40/100 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/313120/stranded-deepThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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