Project Winter

Project Winter

Fair · Multiplayer · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 55% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$4.4955% off

Cost per hour
$0.77/hr
Reviews▼
82% of 19,061
Genre rank
Top 12% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
13h
To 100%
123.8h 9.5x the story
Achievements
78

Price and sales

Sales
41 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$1.99 August 2024
Sale every
60d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
13 now
Cheaper than
34% of its genre
Better reviewed
84% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

71% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A 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

The value story

The value story

Across all 41 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LOCKDOWN Protocol ($9.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Longvinter ($19.99, scores 17).

More about Project Winter

14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 1,284 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.

A typical playtime on HowLongToBeat is 13 hours. The players who chase everything log 124, 9.5 times that.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.49 (55% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reach1.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds14 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

I haven't played for multiple years, but this was my favorite video game version of Mafia/Werewolf
The War of 1812Recommendedafter 239hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
been playing this game again after many years, still the best game ever if u have grudges to ur friends,just kill them LOL. P.S ARYA BANGSATTT
Cadis_IndonesiaRecommendedafter 62hJun 2026Read on Steam
I recently purchased the game and was excited by the concept. A survival game built heavily around co op, betrayal, objectives and surviving a harsh winter environment sounds like something that could be extremely fun with the right players. Unfortunately, one of the biggest problems I encountered almost immediately was the lack of active players in the USA eastern region. There are times when there are simply no...
SillyBean30Not recommendedafter 6.5hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 660 Ti / HD 7870, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Project Winter scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/774861/project-winter
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Reviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperOther Ocean Interactive
PublisherOther Ocean Group
GenreMultiplayer
Released2019
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements78