Maneater
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $0.74/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD 5500, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in December 2025. Its cuts run 65 percent off as a rule. There have been 52 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $5.99 at 85 percent off still sits 50 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 45 at list, 72 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, God of War ($49.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Overlord™: Raising Hell ($9.99, scores 66).
Critics scored it 70. Players sit 17 points higher at 87 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 499 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 1,337 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
92% start to 9% 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
126 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
Maneater feels a lot like a 3D version of Hungry Shark Evolution and that similarity is probably a big part of what makes this game so fun. The gameplay is straightforward and relatively fun although it does become repetitive after a while. Still, there is a certain satisfaction in simply roaming the ocean and watching your shark grow from a small predator into an absurdly powerful creature. It works best when...
Maneater -review graphics- looks good gameplay- great, full of fun audience- teens and adults pc requirements- decent my old one run it well game size- ok size- 17 GB difficulty- easy to learn the combat (achievements difficulty 2/10) story- lovely, I loved the feeling of revenge DLC- good 8/10 game time- below average, +-20 hours bugs- few bugs, getting stuck in the texture during combat (sometimes) price- 36 eur...
It was alright, keeps crashing every few hours, but it's alright. Looking forward to the Maneater 2.
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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Maneater scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/629820/maneaterThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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