The Descendant
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it. Price from Oct 20.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.68/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 7,164
- Critics
- 59 players 29 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 14% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.14 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.6h
- To 100%
- 10h 1.8x the story
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 10 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.59 November 2016
- Sale every
- 119d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 12 now
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
13% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.59, set in November 2016. It has been discounted 10 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 17 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 14 percent. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Frankenstein: Master of Death ($4.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats The Norwood Suite ($9.99, scores 58).
More about The Descendant
Critics scored it 59. Players sit 29 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 339 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
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
The mot lazy talentless "game" I have played in a while. Flappy bird got more depth.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
In THE DESCENDANT, the end of the world is only the start. With what remains of humanity protected in underground Ark facilities, your mission is to keep survivors alive, while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within Ark-01.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD or nVidia card with 1GB RAM, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
The Descendant scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 20. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/351940/the-descendantReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.