Steel Seed
Skip · Action · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 9.4h 12.2h to 100%
- Value
- $4.25/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 412 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 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
Steel Seed is a stealth-action adventure set in a dark sci-fi world on the brink of extinction. Play as Zoe and her drone Koby as they explore a hostile underground facility. Uncover secrets, survive dangers, search for answers, and humanity’s last hope.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NvidiaGTX 1070 / Intel ARC 580 / AMD equivalent, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
14 discounts in the 1 year on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 42 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales ($49.99, scores 53) and Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered ($59.99, scores 67) both outscore it.
More about Steel Seed
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 343 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026.
The drop-off
58% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 23:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I really wanted to like this game, but over a year after launch, it's still plagued by bugs and baffling design choices that make me wonder if it was ever play tested. I can forgive some jank in a $40 title, but the devs made a lot of decisions to ruin it. The camera is terrible, constantly yanking your view in random directions so you get the "See what I made" shot. The stealth is completely inconsistent enemies...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
After my first attempt of this buggy mess I managed barely an hour of gameplay. The controls were a mess and the story wasn`t appealing. Recently I gave it another go; maybe I called it too early. The controls are slightly better, the combat really wants to be The Jedi survivor series but falls short. Not to mention the protagonist flat out refuses to jump at certain platforming sections. After 10 hours the game has...
A very fun and fast-paced game that was very good! I found the story very enjoyable, it was visually amazing with a lot of different skills that were fun to obtain by completing different challenges, giving you a lot of variety in approaching different areas in different ways. Very nice option to utilize your drone partner to scout, tag enemies and to use as a complementary fighting partner in the game. Koby for the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Steel Seed scores 32/100 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/458430/steel-seedReviews 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.