Distrust: Polar Survival
Skip · Roguelike · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Reviews
- 72% of 2,559 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 9600 GT/Radeon HD 3870 (512 MB, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 78 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, CONSCRIPT: Director’s Cut ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats West of Dead ($3.99, scores 29).
More about Distrust: Polar Survival
Of the 527 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 447 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
52% start to 11% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Distrust: Polar Survival scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/635200/distrust-polar-survivalReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.