Darkwater
Skip · RPG · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GForce GTX 1050, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Darkwater is a cooperative extraction horror game for 1-4 players. Command a submarine trapped under the ice of an alien planet. Battle enemy vessels and deep sea abominations as you hunt for resources. Do what it takes to survive.
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
It has never been cheaper than $6.99. That was September 2025. 9 discounts in the 18 months on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Barotrauma ($34.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Notes of Soul ($29.99, scores 32).
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 24 of the 522 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 164 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 238 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
30% start to 26% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 17:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game is just very repetitive and not that fun. Basically just a loop of unsatisfying exploration of abandoned bases that mostly look/feel the same and not very engaging sub battles.
Gameplay is an interesting mix of FTL and Lethal Company; however, seriously lacking in polish and the design itself feels bland, modular, and generic.
amazing game and concept, only thing holding it back is the player base most people who have tried it stopped cause it was too hard and with such a small player count after the initial release you need a couple friends to beat the game and have fun doing so.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Darkwater scores 48/100 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/619540/darkwaterReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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