The Dweller
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.84.
- Length
- 1.7h 2.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.49/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 669 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
The Dweller is a puzzle game where you play as the MONSTER! It's time to get rid of all those pesky archaeologists snooping around in your lair. SCARE them, CRUSH them, DEVOUR them! ELIMINATE THE INTRUDERS!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX compatible graphics, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
Across all 101 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.84 at 83 percent off still sits 71 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, shapez ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Buggos ($9.99, scores 67).
More about The Dweller
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
20% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 05:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The Dweller is a compact but inventive puzzle experience developed by Villainous Games and published by Forever Entertainment S. A. that immediately distinguishes itself through its unusual perspective. Instead of placing the player in the role of an adventurer braving ancient ruins, the game flips the premise entirely and casts you as the ancient horror that dwells beneath the earth. Archaeologists who enter your...
1 more review, not recommended
Control wurm like creature which dive underground. Goal is to swallow all explorers. You can move freely in soil, do short dive and push boxes. It plays like a puzzle game. Not a big fan of this one. Level design is lacking. Boring to play and bland scenery make this one a bad choice rather than something at least mediocre. Not recommended.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Dweller scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/463930/the-dwellerReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.