Putrefaction
Skip · Shooter · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 26, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 1.5h 4h to 100%
- Value
- $1.99/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 497 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
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About the game
Putrefaction is a First Person Shooter with horror elements, lots of enemies and weapons, heavily inspired by old-school shooter classics.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128MB Video Card with OpenGL support, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
79 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. Prodeus ($24.99, scores 58) outscores it, and so does Trepang2 ($7.49, scores 80). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Putrefaction
Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.5 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
6% 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
What players say
Slow, boring, and I spent more time waiting for it to become fun than actually having fun. I gave it a fair shot, but there just wasn't enough here to keep me interested.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Oh it's bad, oh it's REAL bad.... Love the art style and enemy designs but wow is the game itself just awful.
Putrefaction, developed and published by Kazakov Oleg, is a fast-paced first-person shooter that pays homage to the classic FPS titles of the 1990s. Drawing inspiration from games like Doom and Quake, it immerses players in a grim, near-future world where a mysterious infection has transformed humans into horrific, zombie-like creatures. Players step into the shoes of an elite operative sent to investigate an...
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Cite this score
Putrefaction scores 26/100 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/378270/putrefactionReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.