How To Survive: Third Person Standalone

How To Survive: Third Person Standalone

Skip · Shooter · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 2, under the fair line, at $9.99. Price from Oct 22.

Reviews▼
57% of 1,262
Genre rank
Top 91% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews, Length unknown

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Time and effort

Finish
4% reach the ending
Achievements
27

Price and sales

Sales
40 on record
Typical cut
90% off
Steam low
$0.99 May 2016
Sale every
45d last October 2026
All-time low $0.59 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1 now
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
10% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

67% start to 4% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was May 2016. 40 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.

It is less well reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. How to Survive 2 ($14.99, scores 27) outscores it, and so does How to Survive ($14.99, scores 58). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about How To Survive: Third Person Standalone

Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 542 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.

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 we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Engagement4% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Cost per hour, est. length~$1.67/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 58% after the small-sample adjustment
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 140 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Ati 5700 series/NVIDIA GeForce GT240 or equivalent, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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How To Survive: Third Person Standalone scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. Price last read Oct 22. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/360150/how-to-survive-third-person-standalone
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Oct 22. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperEko Software
Publisher505 Games
GenreShooter
Released2015
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements27