TRAPPED

TRAPPED

Skip · Multiplayer · 2025

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $1.99.

Length
1.1h 1.3h to 100%
Value
$1.81/hr
Reviews
36% of 460 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 2 of its last 5 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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

Holding it back
Reviews36% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 39% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.81/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 149 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
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

Something has gone terribly wrong in TRAPPED Alaska. Except for you, and a handful of survivors, the whole town has been emptied. Everywhere, what should be water has been replaced by a black semi-sentient sludge that seems to change everything it touches. And it’s rising...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 580, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 38 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.

It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Tinkerlands ($9.09, scores 67) and Colony Survival ($24.95, scores 70) both outscore it.

More about TRAPPED

Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 147 reviews written there were positive, against 36 percent overall, and those are 60 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

4% 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

TRAPPED, developed by Cheap Fun Games in collaboration with Forthright Indie Team and published by Forthright Indie Games Division, is an indie survival title that aims high with its blend of open-world exploration, cooperative gameplay, and horror-driven tension. Set in a desolate Alaskan environment overtaken by a strange, tar-like contamination, the game wastes little time establishing a bleak and hostile world...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 11hApr 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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メᵃʳᶜᵃᵈᵉ™ 💗Recommendedafter 3.9hOct 2024early accessRead on Steam
Just no, owned it since release. When i look back at this, i came to realize that i was quite the naive little snob. Screw games like this.
I3eauLeBoiNot recommendedafter 3.5hAug 2024early accessRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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TRAPPED scores 0/100 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/444690/trapped
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCheap Fun Games
PublisherForthright Indie Games Division
GenreMultiplayer
Released2025
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements22