Defunct
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$4.99Skip
On its price record
$3.90Fair
- Length
- 1.3h 5.9h to 100%
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 737 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.90 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 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Defunct is an indie adventure game with a focus on flow, speed and an engaging world. You are a broken robot that accidentally falls out of a giant cargo ship onto a post-human Earth, now inhabited by robots. You have to get back to your ship before it’s too late!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M or AMD Radeon HD 6770M, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 74 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Haste ($11.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Caveman World: Mountains of Unga Boonga ($0.69, scores 33).
More about Defunct
This site sampled 246 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 329 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.3 hours; clearing it takes 6, which is 4.5 times the campaign.
At 1.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
48% start to 3% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Defunct scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/359350/defunctReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.