Scale the Depths
Worth it · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since May 2026.
- Length
- 4.4h
- Value
- $1.70/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 25% off today.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Fish, scale, sell, repeat. Scale the Depths is a casual fishing game built around this simple but satisfying loop. Feed hungry customers, upgrade your gear, and uncover the many secrets hidden beneath the surface.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was October 2026. 3 discounts in the 4 months on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today's $7.49 at 25 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 68. The current cut is what makes it a 72.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. It scores the same as Farmer's Life, which costs $19.99. This one is $7.49.
8 of the 513 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 218 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.4 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
99% start to 5% 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
163 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 17:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Scale the Depths scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3198890/scale-the-depthsReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 2.
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