Saurian
Skip · Strategy · 2017 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 4, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $10.00/hr
- Reviews
- 60% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or equivalent, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Saurian is a survival-simulation experience about living the life of a dinosaur. Starting from the egg, you must survive to adulthood amidst the perilous Hell Creek ecosystem of 66 million years ago, meticulously reconstructed with the help of professional paleontologists.
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
June 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 30 in the 9 years tracked, about 16 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beasts of Bermuda ($19.99, scores 15) beats it on value, while it beats Medieval Engineers ($9.99, scores 2).
This site sampled 596 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 436 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 364 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
53% 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
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 20:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Not worth buying in its current unbaked state. Development seems to be at a standstill, and it needs a team that will get things done. However, this game had HUGE potential and it really breaks my heart that the most paleoaccurate game is dead.
Abandoroonie. Was a cool premise, sadly... Typical abandonware. Run away from this one! I really have to stop buying "Early Access" titles from shady/unknown devs/publishers. Ugh. Steam is like a minefield of abandoned titles that should be taken down but because Steam gets a cut of some poor sap's misplaced money... They refuse to yank things like this offline. Sad. Just sad.
This game may be in heavy development, but the idea of this game is not shown in many places, . This game shows dinosaurs not as monsters, or reptiles made of skin and bones, But shows them as the animals that they were. Modles are realistic, belivable, and as close to perfect as they can be. Not many playables, but both seem to show how those species lived and how the ecosystem treated them at each growth stage...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Saurian scores 4/100 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/587450/saurianReviews 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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