Earthfall

Earthfall

Skip · Shooter · 2018

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 16, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
6h 100h to 100%
Value
$3.33/hr
Reviews
65% of 2,310 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 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

Raising the score
Replayability~36h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 6h main story
Holding it back
Value$3.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews65% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Refunds7 of 358 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

NOW AVAILABLE! When the Earth falls to an extra-terrestrial invasion, humanity becomes an endangered species. Earthfall is a four-player cooperative shooter that challenges players to survive hordes of ruthless alien drones and their inscrutable masters.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 750 2GB, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 25 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 66 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition ($2.99, scores 36) beats it on value, while it beats Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection ($29.99, scores 8).

More about Earthfall

This site sampled 358 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 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 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 181 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 527 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.

6 hours to finish it, 100 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 17 times the campaign.

The drop-off

88% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

A crashfest that doesn't save your settings between sessions. A gripe dating back to 2018.
DestroyedNot recommendedafter 1.4hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Not worth the 5 bucks i paid for it. Is this a high school project? Bland ,uninspired, boring and lifeless pretty much sum it up. Poor artwork poor sound poor characters. I feel robbed.
Jubilation T CornponeNot recommendedafter 2.0hJul 2026Read on Steam
long abandoned but pretty damn good for an L4D-like. can we get an EARTHFALL SWEEP in the BIG '26!?!?!!?!?
TheBigHRecommendedafter 5.6hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Earthfall scores 16/100 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/415590/earthfall
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Reviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+4
Critics61
Players65
Metacritic critics · 2,310 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHolospark
PublisherHolospark
GenreShooter
Released2018
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements86