The Underground Man
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD4000, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.
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
The value story
June 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $0.29. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 25 in the 10 years tracked, about 19 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive ($14.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Deadlight ($14.99, scores 45).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 518 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
18% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
The Underground Man is one of the strangest and most deliberately unsettling indie games available on Steam, combining post-apocalyptic adventure mechanics, surreal humor, philosophical satire, and intentionally frustrating gameplay into an experience that constantly feels unpredictable. Developed by Mehsoft, the game presents itself as a retro-inspired RPG set in a ruined radioactive world, but it quickly becomes...
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
I'm refunding my 79c. Not because I can't afford to lose 79c, but in order to make a point.
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Cite this score
The Underground Man scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/513230/the-underground-manReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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