Mr. Prepper
Fair · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.9h
- Value
- $1.44/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 520M or Intel HD 4000, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.
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
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.19. It has been discounted 55 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mr. Prepper: Prologue (free, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Force of Nature ($7.99, scores 44).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 510 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13.9 hours. Doing everything runs 46, 3.3 times as long.
The drop-off
96% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 13.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
44 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 07:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Linear game. A lot of grinding. Little to no replayability. And of course bugs. Right at the end of the game I get to the fort and it says leave all my stuff in the box. My inventory is empty, even stuff equipped is empty. Keep clicking on the computer with the same answer. Can't enter the fort. So I'm definitely not recommending a game I cannot even complete.
Game is a buggy mess. Save files randomly nuke themselves, inventory will edit itself across other saves so you can't roll back, random world tasks will occasionally undo themselves. Not worth the effort tbh. Devs have most likely checked out anyway.
Wasn't worth the $4 USD I paid for it. Game breaking/game ending bugs still present 4 years later. Discussion forums filled with other examples. Glorified Tablet game
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mr. Prepper scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/761830/mr-prepperReviews 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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