Scrap Mechanic
Worth it · Action · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $28.99, a BANGER if it drops to $20.18.
- Length
- 25.2h
- Value
- $1.15/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 79% over the last 30 days against 92% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel Iris Xe Graphics or equivalent, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was June 2017. 48 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 33 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 11 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $20.18, a level the record has reached 2 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Medieval Dynasty ($34.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Sons Of The Forest ($29.99, scores 65).
Players rate it 92 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 79 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,770 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 4,330 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 25.2 hours. Doing everything runs 59, 2.3 times as long.
122,495 reviews stand behind that percentage.
The drop-off
8% start to <1% 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
909 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
just pointless quests and building cars is pointless, combat is horrible, cant play on controller either
I spent 3 hours, read many forum posts, watched an in-depth video trying to get a water cannon to squirt water on my crops repeatedly. In the end, I still didn't understand what I had built and it worked only intermittently. There is a great game here but unless you have a predilection for designing complex machines with no help, you will probably find this game very frustrating and punishing. I wanted to like it...
Wonderful game, was good before 1.0, but 1.0 truly elevated the game. Half of my hours played at time of review have been post launch, and I've only now "finished" the game yet I intend and do so, so much more. a game of so much possibility. 10/10
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Scrap Mechanic scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/387990/scrap-mechanicThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 5, price as of Sep 24.
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