Treasure Hunter Simulator
Skip · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $16.99.
- Length
- 9.2h
- Value
- $1.85/hr
- Reviews
- 54% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB VRAM, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dive into the exciting world of finding long forgotten treasures. Grab your metal detector and set off to explore the countryside. What today looks like a peaceful meadow might have been the scene of a fierce battle in the past, hiding now the valuable artefacts. Ready to dig in the past?
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
December 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $1.69. It has been discounted 78 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. PLAYNE : The Meditation Game ($14.99, scores 60) outscores it, and so does Barn Finders ($19.99, scores 51). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 597 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 392 reviews written there were positive, against 54 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
73% start to 5% 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
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 07:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's bad, guys. Baaaad. The trailers and screenshots make it look like a really engaging experience that actually simulates trash-hunting, but it's realistically more of a gacha machine with ONE SINGLE game mechanic. Yes, you can move around and look. Aside from this, the only thing to do in the game is to pixelhunt for the correct spot to dig in. Once you've started digging, you click a few times, and then the game...
You spend your time travelling all around the globe and unearthing the same exact artefacts in every place. The dev put as much effort into this game as you would in doing chores around the house.
tl;dr: It's fine but nothing special. If there was a *shrug* rating, I'd give it that. Instead I flipped a coin and gave it a plus. The gameplay got very tedious too quickly for me to recommend too much. Go to area, use a metal detector to find a thing, break out the shovel, dig it up and spray it clean. Rinse and repeat. The objects you find are not memorable and blur together. Used only as a way to make more money...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Treasure Hunter Simulator scores 0/100 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/748300/treasure-hunter-simulatorReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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