Wayward
Fair · Roguelike · 2016 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 1,370
- Genre rank
- Top 34% Roguelike
Holding it back: Early access, Reach
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Price and sales
- Sales
- 66 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $5.59 May 2019
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10 now
- Cheaper than
- 67% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 70% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
66 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 34 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Terminus: Zombie Survivors ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Card Survival: Fantasy Forest ($21.99, scores 39).
More about Wayward
7 of the 381 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,176 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 100 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 176 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GPU with WebGL support, 512MB of video memory, and at least 128 GFLOPS., 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Wayward scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/379210/waywardReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.