Unexplored

Unexplored

Fair · Roguelike · 2017

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $1.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2016. Buy it now if you want it.

Length
10h 200h to 100%
Value
$0.20/hr
Reviews
85% of 721 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

It is 80% off today.

Discounted in 3 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

Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ 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$0.20/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead That is today's sale price. Normally $1.00/hr
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 122 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

The ROGUELITE that feels like a ROGUELIKE. Praised for its fantastically generated dungeons, real-time combat and surprising amount of content and depth. One of the BEST GAMES OF THE YEAR according to PC Gamer and VICE Waypoint.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3D Graphics Card, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 47 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

Value puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Binding of Isaac ($4.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeon Souls ($12.99, scores 37).

More about Unexplored

HowLongToBeat players log 10 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 200, 20 times as much.

The drop-off

65% 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

unexplored is a bit of a mild name for how solid a roguelike adventure this game is an even, uh, worse name would be cave exploring cyclops pros: -vivid runs; where i have max stealth stuff and the shadows are providing genuinely safe harbour in hell-like depths, or ive gotten ahold of some extensive combo of materials ie copy scroll and scrolls -a stack of maps for your adventure that are slow to explore and...
idiot elementalRecommendedafter 30hJan 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
As a true roguelike OG beard-lord, I can wholeheartedly say, this game is a banger. It doesn't hold your hand. You're going to get owned, and you'll want to try again. Dark Souls never looked more pathetic. This is the only non-turn based roguelike that's worth mentioning. My only gripe is the cyclops dude, as I am quite partial to two-eyed protaganists. 9.7/10
ZtheFarmerRecommendedafter 19hAug 2025Read on Steam
Now that I've finally managed to beat the game on Hard level, after about 330 tries, I guess I can share my thoughts on it validly. When I first took a look at Unexplored, coming upon it thanks to Unexplored 2, which is a very different game, I did not think that I was going to get much enjoyment out of it. After all, ARPGs are not really my thing. But the reviews were so positive, that I eventually decided to take...
musteriuzRecommendedafter 296hAug 2025Read 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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Unexplored scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/506870/unexplored
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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

DeveloperLudomotion
PublisherLudomotion
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements119