Subterrain
Skip · Roguelike · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $16.99.
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne email when it is worth buying. Your call on what that means.
Get one email when Subterrain is worth buying.
One email per game. Unsubscribe in a click.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD graphics 4400 or better - Min resolution 1280x720, 1.2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
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
June 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $5.09. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 62 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre. Don't Starve ($9.99, scores 92) outscores it, and so does Crashlands 2 ($24.99, scores 78). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 313 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 101 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
60% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Embed the live badge, copy the line, or download the card.
Subterrain scores 39/100 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/340490/subterrainThe 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.
A number here look wrong? Tell me what it got wrong and I will look at the inputs behind it.