Near Death
Fair · Action · 2016
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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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.
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.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.95, set in October 2021. 54 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 27 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Long Dark ($34.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Slender: The Arrival ($19.99, scores 52).
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 8. This site sampled 336 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 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.
The drop-off
78% start to 31% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Near Death scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/327560/near-deathThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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