Next Day: Survival
Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 38h
- Value
- $0.26/hr
- Reviews
- 62% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM Shader Model 3.0 or higher, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
August 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 45 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 85 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is less well reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Unturned (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Fallen Earth Classic (free, scores 7).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 2,147 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
94% start to 2% rarestNo 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
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I realize it is not much of a surprise that a low-budget S.T.A.L.K.E.R.esque game is bad, but let me start this negative review by pointing out the actual cool things going on here. It is probably the third or fourth most overall competent, jank notwithstanding, post-apocalypticy swampy Eastern Europeaniano game of its type that I have played out of a dozen or more. It has shockingly bordering on worryingly great...
This feels like one of those games that had a decent idea, showed a bit of promise and then just got left out in the cold halfway through development. There are glimpses of something interesting in the survival setup but they are buried under bugs, unfinished systems and just plain abandonment.
!!!THIS GAME HAS BEEN ABANDONED COMPLETELY, DONT BUY!!! Sadly this game had so much potential, but has been abandoned from 2020, theres no servers anymore, and you cant play online. I played in singleplayer for 3hours to catch up, and it was pretty good, but yeah, theres no too much to do, you have seen everything in 1hour, Just buy Dayz, or Scum instead, they have community servers, and the best of all dedicated...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Next Day: Survival scores 10/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/519190/next-day-survivalThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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