Next Day: Survival
Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.26/hr
- Reviews▼
- 62% of 10,222
- Genre rank
- Top 83% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 38h
- To 100%
- 55h 1.4x the story
- Achievements
- 35
Price and sales
- Sales
- 45 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 August 2020
- Sale every
- 37d last March 2025
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 15% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 45 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 85 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 85 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).
More about Next Day: Survival
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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 598 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
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...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
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...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM Shader Model 3.0 or higher, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Next Day: Survival scores 10/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/519190/next-day-survivalReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.