BIOMUTANT
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 13h
- Value
- $3.08/hr
- Reviews
- 66% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB Direct3D 11 capable video card - GeForce GTX 960 or Radeon R9 380, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
BIOMUTANT® is an open-world, post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu fable RPG, with a unique martial arts styled combat system allowing you to mix melee, shooting and mutant ability action.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was August 2024. 39 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. On the same math Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76) and Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning ($39.99, scores 44) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data says about 13 percent of players ever finish it. On a 13-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 26 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 348 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 2,268 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13 hours. Doing everything runs 42, 3.3 times as long.
The drop-off
78% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
37 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
So to begin with, it wasn't what i expected, thought there'd be more focus on mutations but it turns out it was a wuxia, which is fine, but im already taking away points for the ads i've seen painting it as one with slapdash gear and a major focus on mutating with purpose, seeming like a lone wolf type ♥♥♥♥ as i go somewhere new because im a drifter type ♥♥♥♥. Within an hour i open it up i am, apparently, the long...
It's really hard to recommend this one, I did finish the game because I had nothing else at the time and played for more than 3 hours... It's extremely repetitive, badly optimized and filled with random, useless activities. Don't even let me start about the damn annoying narrator.
I've returned 5 years after release to play it again. Doing so has been on my mind for quite a while now, but I just couldn't find the time. I understand that this game is "special" in all of this word's meanings. To me, it's positively special. I like the general idea behind the game, the story, the slightly comic-y graphics and the commentator. It's an overall nicely mixed experience between funny, enjoyable...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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BIOMUTANT scores 16/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/597820/biomutantThe 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 Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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