Project Winter
Fair · Multiplayer · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.8h
- Value
- $1.02/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 660 Ti / HD 7870, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
August 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 40 in the 8 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LOCKDOWN Protocol ($9.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats White Noise 2 ($9.99, scores 52).
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 1,286 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 9.8 hours. The players who chase everything log 124, 13 times that.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
71% start to 28% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
16 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
im and my friends argued for 30 minutes after the game because detective gave wrong information and made the traitor win, but the game was really fun
A great game with a dead community. If you got enough friends for an 8 player lobby, i recommend.
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...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Project Winter scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/774861/project-winterThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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