WASTED

WASTED

Skip · Roguelike · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

It scores 43, under the fair line, at $12.99.

Cost per hour
$0.72/hr
Reviews▼
77% of 1,181
Critics
68 players 9 higher
Genre rank
Top 57% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
18.1h
To 100%
27.7h 1.5x the story
Achievements
21

Price and sales

Sales
47 on record
Typical cut
73% off
Steam low
$1.29 May 2018
Sale every
79d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.29 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2 now
Cheaper than
43% of its genre
Better reviewed
41% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

78% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 47 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 73 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Among the games that feel like it, Delver ($14.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Killing Room ($14.99, scores 24).

More about WASTED

Critics scored it 68. Players sit 9 points higher at 77 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.50 (73% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 121 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

This game was introduced to me years ago and has become a returning guilty pleasure, I wish there was a sequel or more content planned but for a solo dev this was damn good
Sgt. Sneed SpreadlyRecommendedafter 33hFeb 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
This game is good. Not perfect, a little rough. It is indeed fun and enjoyable I don't regret my time or money spent playing this title.
KorcfutzRecommendedafter 24hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Get wasted or get wasted trying in WASTED, a roguelike post-apocalyptic pub crawler. Fight tooth and nail, bullets and baseball bats in search of Booze, gain strange mutational Hangovers, and explore the Coolers in search of powerful weapons, armor, and a nice stiff drink to top it all off.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Dedicated graphics card with 512MB VRAM and Shader model 3.0, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
WASTED scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/327510/wasted
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics68
Players77
Metacritic critics · 1,181 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperMr. Podunkian
PublisherMr. Podunkian
GenreRoguelike
Released2016
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements21