Barotrauma
BANGER · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $17.49.
- Length
- 52.1h
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB memory (dedicated VRAM or shared RAM), Shader Model 2.0+, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!
What drives the score
How to read this
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
January 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. 77 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $17.49 at 50 percent off still sits 192 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, SCP: Secret Laboratory (free, scores 83) and Sons Of The Forest ($29.99, scores 65) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $57.44. It costs $17.49.
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 13 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 5 percent of players ever finish it. On a 52.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 26 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 2,014 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 52.1 hours. Doing everything runs 138, 2.6 times as long.
Still 2.4K concurrent players, 3 years in.
The drop-off
86% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 52.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
2,371 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
Great game builds trust in your friends and makes you enjoy teamwork with absolutely no issues whatsoever. *YOU FEEL SOMETHING CRAWLING IN YOUR THROAT*
i have played barotrauma meting friends making enemies and attempting to communicate to the large player base of Russians and I have come to know that the game is worth it you will die and its not a walk in the park but you learn and develop skills i strongly recomend trying the game
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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Barotrauma scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/602960/barotraumaThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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