Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 6000 / GeForce 550 / AMD R7 250 (AMD Radeon HD 7750), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
What drives the score
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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
It has never been cheaper than $12.49. That was December 2025. 24 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Planet Crafter ($23.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Stationeers ($34.99, scores 65).
20 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 1,392 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 6 years ago and 1.5K were still playing it at the last check.
Players
1,488 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Stormworks: Build and Rescue scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/573090/stormworks-build-and-rescueThe 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 1, price as of Sep 24.
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