Sharks and Minnows
Fair · Short indie · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.9h
- Value
- $8.88/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 370 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.47 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Find supplies to maintain your stamina. Complete ten laps. Escape.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1050TI M, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 7 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Aquaria ($9.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Dreamcore ($17.99, scores 53).
More about Sharks and Minnows
7 of the 326 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 693 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 42 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 183 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 56 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
94% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 07:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This was a verry bizzar game that left me second guessing everything the entier time. i havnt had a horror game have me that on my toes in a long time. definitly worth a play if you ask me :3
1 more review
This game is awesome, what a great horror game. I'll probably play through it again, which says a lot. Bravo!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sharks and Minnows scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3446200/sharks-and-minnowsReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.