Near Death
Worth it · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$7.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9975% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.58/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 1,075
- Critics
- 70 players 21 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.1h
- To 100%
- 4.7h 1.5x the story
- Finish
- 31% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 18
Price and sales
- Sales
- 55 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.95 October 2021
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to 31% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
55 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. The nearest things to it, Don't Be Afraid ($9.99, scores 54) and MADiSON ($34.99, scores 47), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Near Death
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 21-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 336 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
What players say
Completed the game in one sitting while needing to pee in order to maximize the survival experience
2 more reviews
Though certainly rough around the edges, this remains one of the best crafted narrative driven survival games I've played, sitting alongside the likes of Subnautica. The biggest deviation from it's contemporaries is that there are no evil monsters, no zombies, no aliens, not even a single sign of something still alive. Not because of some disaster, or apocalyptic catastrophe. No. It's winter, and you've crash landed...
Most similar to a walking sim game with an excellent atmosphere and the ever-present, novel antagonist of the polar storm bearing down on you. The basic resource management and the changing weather makes it feel like you're really battling the wind and cold, and the story propels you through the 3-5 hour experience. It felt like normal difficulty was properly tuned and I really enjoyed this one. I'd highly recommend...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 with 1GB memory (or AMD equivalent), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Near Death scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/327560/near-deathReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.