Survivalist
Fair · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 33.8h
- Value
- $0.15/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX10-capable graphics card, 164 MB of storage. Windows only.
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in December 2020. It has been discounted 130 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales. 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 4 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dig or Die ($11.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Niffelheim ($19.99, scores 20).
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 33.8-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. None of the 377 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 486 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
24% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 33.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
6 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
I really love this game, I played several times during the years, and I always enjoy my time, especially thanks to the editor, turning Alice into a very little man, it s always funny, I played also the sequel, but this one have a special feeling, I just wish there was something more to do, to build, to plant.. great game, anyway thank you Bob
This is one of those indie gems that focuses on the actual survival part of the apocalypse. It's not about flashy graphics; it's about managing people and resources. It can be a bit of a grind to keep everyone fed and happy, but the simulation is deep enough to keep you coming back to see how your community holds up. Graphics: Potato-friendly Gameplay: Addictive survival mechanics Story: Solid for an indie title...
This is not a game it is a test of willingness, it not hard nor easy but time consuming, the g key will be your friend and I will Invite him to my wedding. This game is a mixture of zombie games Dead Rising 2 = gameplay mechanic Kateys Zomberx but with insulin Days Gone a little = story/factions they even suck in both I hate the factions more in this game than DG State Of Decay = world GAMEPLAY Like The Sims™ but...
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.
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Survivalist scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/340050/survivalistThe 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 22, price as of Sep 24.
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