Scrap Mechanic
Worth it · Action · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $28.99, a BANGER if it drops to $20.59.
- Cost per hourA
- $1.15/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 123,361
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $20.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 25.2h
- To 100%
- 64.5h 2.6x the story
- Achievements
- 34
Price and sales
- Sales
- 49 on record
- Typical cut
- 33% off
- Steam low
- $11.99 June 2017
- Sale every
- 74d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 972 now
- Recent reviews
- 86% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 4% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
9% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
49 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 33 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $20.59, a level the record has reached 3 times.
Its score 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 67).
More about Scrap Mechanic
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,013 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 65, 2.6 times as long.
123,361 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $19.42 (33% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
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
What players say
Fell through the terrain multiple times. followed up by it crashing my entire computer.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game is practically unplayable due to the massive lag and unbearable latency during multiplayer sessions. The constant delays make it impossible to enjoy the gameplay or compete fairly with other players. It completely ruins the experience and turns what could be a fun game into a frustrating waste of time. Multiplayer should be one of the main features, yet the poor performance makes it feel completely broken...
THUNDERATION! What an upgrade from Early Access. Me and my 70 yr old dad have been playing this game for years. After 1.0 came out he's logged 1700 hrs. As a team we overcame early game farm defense hurdles, progressed through a fully fleshed out story campaign, searched through a beautiful, easy on the eyes open world. And then, the Mines! This was the coolest thing to be waiting on us into end game. An underground...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel Iris Xe Graphics or equivalent, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Scrap Mechanic scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/387990/scrap-mechanicReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.