Rock Bottom
Worth it · Action · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.26.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $2.22/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 550, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Mine. Smelt. Upgrade. Repeat. Rock Bottom is an incremental mining game where every swing makes you stronger. Descend through 8 unique layers, unlock devastating abilities, and discover what lies at Rock Bottom
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
The lowest price on record is $6.39, set in September 2026. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 72 days tracked here, most recently in September 2026. $6.26 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Planet Coaster ($11.24, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Landfall Archives (free, scores 76).
Steam's global achievement data puts 67 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 386 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026.
The drop-off
99% start to 67% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Rock Bottom scores 81/100 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/4297840/rock-bottomThe 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 Aug 6, price as of Sep 23.
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