Shelldiver
BANGER · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.4h
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 99% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT, 512 MB or AMD Radeon HD 7570, 1 GB, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Take a deep breath and dive right into this cozy incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. Upgrade your equipment, explore biomes, and help your turtly village!
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
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.74. It has been discounted 8 times in the 11 months tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games that feel like it, Peaks of Yore ($6.64, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Rocket Rats ($1.49, scores 78).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $8.32. It costs $4.99.
This site sampled 503 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 489 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
99% start to 68% 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
Players
125 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:08 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shelldiver scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3862670/shelldiverReviews 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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