Barotrauma
BANGER · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$34.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$17.4950% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.68/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 90,886
- Critics
- 81 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert at $17.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 51.4h
- To 100%
- 139.2h 2.7x the story
- Finish
- 6% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 76
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 January 2023
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4,154 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
86% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
79 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Darkwater ($9.99, scores 48) and The Wild Eight ($24.99, scores 18) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $56.21. It costs $34.99.
More about Barotrauma
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 puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 51.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 28 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 2,015 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 51.4 hours. Doing everything runs 139, 2.7 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 6 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
First time playing Mudraptor gets in my sub and kills my captain, medic, and engineer mechanic takes the gun off captains body and kills mudraptor mechanic now has to patch up the sub, run the reactor, pilot the sub, man the guns, and repair broken equipment all at once he makes it to the outpost and lives dies in a later mission from a different mudraptor abosolute cinema 10/10 i wish i had friends to play this...
2 more reviews
Ladies and Gentleman, I implore you to read this review with sincerity and with your full attention. Barotrauma is a game... Not for the weak, but not for the strong either. Barotrauma is a game for a special type of being, a being that faces Increased difficulty with everything else, Autistic people. The sheer focus and dedication this game requires can only be amassed from people so far down the spectrum that they...
This game is definitely worth the 40 dollars. Its one of the most in-depth detailed games I think I've played in a long time. You or you and your friends (which is more fun but singleplayer is still goated) control a nuclear submarine in the most inhospitable climate ever. Doing whatever you possibly can to keep the thing floating while eldritch horrors try to make their way into your submarine. You can take a side...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Barotrauma scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/602960/barotraumaReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.