The Wild Eight
Skip · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 18, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 68% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or analogue with 2GB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
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
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in June 2025. It has been discounted 94 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Feel The Snow ($12.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Reign Of Kings ($9.99, scores 2).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 1,116 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
10.1 hours to finish it, 27 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
67% start to 1% 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
12 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 08:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A lot of tiny bugs here and there, about movement, enemy ai, ui clicks, buildings that you interact with when you click on another one because you're too close from the one or the other. Some sfx bug, crackling from time to time, and also sometimes it's the wrong animal sound, like a rabbit sound when you hit a dear. Also, the resource 'tendon' is pretty rare, yet it's used for a lot of things, so it makes a lot of...
Purchased a while back and it was hard for me, then recently started to play again and I simply cannot put it down. I'm so into it! I love the atmosphere, survival, inventory managment, art style, music, and just all of it. It has challanges that you have to overcome, maybe avoid that wolf, and what polar bears?! lol it scared me. Anyways, GREAT game and would recommend. Its like the long dark but top down style...
I enjoyed this game allot and very happy I Purchased it. I Played this game and finished it. I loved it and I recommend it. I feel it doesn't deserve the mixed reviews it got. I found nothing wrong with it. Please note some games need you to be in the right mood before you play it, and make sure your computer settings fit the game before you purchase it. Also to avoid game crashes, go to the Task manager...
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Cite this score
The Wild Eight scores 18/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/526160/the-wild-eightReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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