Depraved
Skip · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 10.2h
- Value
- $1.96/hr
- Reviews
- 61% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 or AMD Radeon R9380, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.
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
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in May 2024. 92 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. On the same math Foundation ($34.99, scores 58) and Kingdoms Reborn ($19.99, scores 62) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
6 of the 523 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 154 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.2 hours. Doing everything runs 42, 4.1 times as long.
The drop-off
92% 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
What players say
This game is really fun. It has difficulty settings that you can tailor to your liking. There are many different buildings in the game, with most unlocking as you play and meet some requirement or other. If you play on easy it is a pretty relaxing fun time. I got it on sale and it is more than worth what I paid, and I have not unlocked even a quarter of my buildings yet, or explored at all outside the spot I started...
Is Depraved worth playing? Purchase? For under $10 YES! Short answer: If you enjoy settlement building type of games that isn't too in depth and like having the ability to pick it up and put it down with ease, then yes! If you enjoy much more in depth mechanics with trade to other civilized townships (not including your other towns) then you might find it lacking. Pros: Fun to play for the indie game that it is as a...
All that is in the game works fine, if you enjoy placing down buildings with no upgrade path i guess you could say this is an ok game. Besides that it is missing any and all gameplay and QoL features that would make the game playable past the 1-2 hour point where you start to notice all that is missing.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Depraved scores 8/100 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/762650/depravedReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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