Outhold
Worth it · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $2.18/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Outhold is a short, strategic incremental game that blends tower defense with a deep meta-progression. Experiment with builds and find overpowered synergies to defend the dwindling fires of Outhold.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.19. That was May 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 7 in the 10 months tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, My Suika – Kyo’s Fruit Merge ($0.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Incredicer ($2.99, scores 70).
Steam's global achievement data puts 38 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 547 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 219 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.2 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
98% start to 38% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
18 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 11:01 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Outhold scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3767740/outholdReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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