UNLOVED
Skip · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX / AMD Radeon 6870 HD or higher, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Based on the community award-winning Doom2 mod with the same name by the same creator, UNLOVED is reimagined in the Unreal Engine 4 to bring forth the unspeakable terror in new ways. Play coop with your friends, increase your skills, mod your weapons and face the horror that this unearthly place holds...
What drives the score
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
January 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $1.24. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 112 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. 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 5 weeks.
It is cheaper than 76 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Killing Floor 2 ($29.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Counter-Strike Nexon (free, scores 17).
6 of the 349 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 24 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 349 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 75, 12 times as much.
The drop-off
39% start to 3% 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
29 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
In brief: Solid horror shooter, with co-op, multiple game modes, and much more under the surface. If you've enjoyed killing floor, classic doom, and skill-based PvE where almost every single decision matters in one way or another, then you might be here for awhile. In more words: Unloved is a game that hates you. It wants you to die, and everything you do while playing feeds into its burning desire for your death...
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).
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UNLOVED scores 33/100 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/321270/unlovedThe 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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