Subsistence
Skip · Shooter · 2016 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $13.99.
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Geforce GT 460 or Radeon HD 3800, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
May 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $9.09. 71 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is less well reviewed than 66 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Volcanoids ($19.99, scores 52) and Voidtrain ($29.99, scores 32) both outscore it.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 267 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 27 percent of the 1,739 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 10 years ago, and 840 were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 27, 22:46 UTC.
The drop-off
21% 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
840 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 22:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Subsistence scores 21/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/418030/subsistenceReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Oct 1.
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