The Artifact
Skip · Short indie · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 1.1h 1.4h to 100%
- Value
- $7.26/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 215 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1565 days ago.
- 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
About the game
Woken from a hypersleep, you find yourself alone on a drifting star cruiser, light years from home. The crew has disappeared, leaving behind nothing but a few scattered records and a strange artifact that seems to hold the key to an alien civilisation.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512mb VRAM recommended, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 40 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 224 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. STASIS ($7.99, scores 57) outscores it, and so does Heaven's Vault ($24.99, scores 58). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about The Artifact
Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 77 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
19% start to 12% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Artifact scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/532920/the-artifactReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.