AWAY: The Survival Series
Skip · Action · 2021
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.5h 16.1h to 100%
- Value
- $4.44/hr
- Reviews
- 55% of 382 positive
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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
In this story-based adventure, play as a tiny sugar glider in your very own nature documentary. Glide among the trees, fight dangerous predators, and explore beautiful environments as you embark on a high-flying journey to save your family.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 380 2GB, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
51 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. On the same math Die Young ($2.49, scores 55) and Praey for the Gods ($29.99, scores 40) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about AWAY: The Survival Series
Of the 314 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 380 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 120 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
4.5 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
53% start to 1% 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
What players say
Very cute game with a few lag issues and spawning problems but other then that its beautiful
2 more reviews
The mechanics are easy to understand and I loved the big gliding parts, and the fact you can explore as other animals is so cool!
AWAY: The Survival Series, developed by Breaking Walls and published by Breaking Walls with Game Seer Ventures, is a game built around a compelling and unusual perspective-one that shifts the player away from power and control and instead places them in the vulnerable position of a small animal struggling to survive in a vast and hostile world. You play as a sugar glider navigating a post-human landscape shaped by...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
AWAY: The Survival Series scores 2/100 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/750200/away-the-survival-seriesReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.