Subterrain
Skip · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $16.99.
- Cost per hour
- $0.35/hr
- Reviews▼
- 76% of 1,401
- Genre rank
- Top 63% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 48.5h
- To 100%
- 58h 1.2x the story
- Finish
- 3% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 48
Price and sales
- Sales
- 63 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $5.09 June 2018
- Sale every
- 52d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 25% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 36% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
60% start to 1% rarestA 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 63 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Crashlands ($14.99, scores 80) outscores it, and so does Don't Starve ($9.99, scores 92). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Subterrain
This site sampled 316 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 102 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.09 (70% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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
What players say
Subterrain is an interesting game. It's a game that's been on my mind for a long time, it's a game I had meant to 100% for literally years until I got around to it this year, or last year. It's also something of a tenuous recommend from myself. I recommend the game for what I like about it, what I find interesting, and what it's trying to do. What holds this game back is some of its mechanics feeling surface level...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Compelling survival horror game that takes the survival part of it seriously. Interlocking systems of personal and map infection rates, hunger, thirst, sleep, slow heal times, stamina, semi-automated resource generation, map-scouring resource grubbing, research and crafting, and power management all combine in a pressure cooker where the clock is always ticking and you are always strategizing how best to use that...
Initial setting is really interesting, but sadly its not developed that much further or at least it takes ages to get to anywhere thats not the same. Quite grindy, though I'm not sure thats even the problem in itself. The game should just help the grind to be little more tolerable. Like machines taking resources from train and every container having more slots to put more stuff in. Or how weapons work; Weapons use...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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?
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Subterrain scores 39/100 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/340490/subterrainReviews 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.