Life in Bunker
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 6, under the fair line, at $15.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $3.07/hr
- Reviews
- 59% of 333 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
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
About the game
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 640M, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 52 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation ($6.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Maia ($24.99, scores 0).
The drop-off
89% 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
What players say
Great game. I spent quite a lot of hours in it but you can say you've seen all it has to offer in about 24h of game play. Which is fine for the price of a latte (got it on a sale) :)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Life in Bunker scores 6/100 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/401690/life-in-bunkerReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.