Quarantine

Quarantine

Skip · RPG · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 5, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
0.7h
Value
$14.27/hr
Reviews
60% of 436 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 each of its last 8 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

Holding it back
Value$14.27/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews60% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 61% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 65 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

Quarantine is an intense turn-based strategy game about waging war on pandemic disease. Recruit a team of specialized operatives to deploy on worldwide missions. Research the contagion, upgrade your tech, and quarantine the outbreak before it kills us all.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB VRAM, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 80 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. On the same math Infectonator 3: Apocalypse ($12.99, scores 57) and Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville ($14.99, scores 71) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Quarantine

Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 177 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

95% start to 2% 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

Quarantine takes a different angle on the global outbreak scenario by placing the player not in the role of a survivor or aggressor, but as the coordinator of a worldwide response effort. Developed by Sproing and published by 505 Games, it leans heavily into a turn-based, board game-inspired structure where every decision is deliberate, calculated, and often made under pressure. Rather than relying on spectacle or...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 10hApr 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
Very fun, there's not many quality games like it. However, the hardest difficulty ends up being easy. I would recommend it, but if you're looking for a game that stays challenging for more than 20 hours, look elsewhere.
ProbablyHumanRecommendedafter 34hMar 2023Read 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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Quarantine scores 5/100 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/489370/quarantine
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSproing
Publisher505 Games
GenreRPG
Released2017
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements22