INSOMNIA: The Ark
Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 5, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 21h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 59% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce 760, AMD Radeon R7 360, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
INSOMNIA is a dieselpunk sci-fi RPG about the slowly degrading remnants of human society attempting to survive on an abandoned space metropolis. Develop your character, explore lovingly handcrafted locations, interact with peculiar NPCs and factions and try to stay alive in this brutal world.
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
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was May 2025. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BIOMUTANT ($9.99, scores 21) beats it on value, while it beats Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend ($14.99, scores 2).
2 of the 274 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 153 reviews written there were positive, against 59 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
21 hours to finish it, 76 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
39% 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 25, 23:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
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INSOMNIA: The Ark has an interesting setting, strong atmosphere, and surprisingly decent combat, but almost every good idea is buried under poor design decisions. Quests often give no XP, combat frequently costs more resources than it rewards, important items look like random junk, progression is badly explained, and the game constantly forces backtracking for obscure parts, keys, tickets, antiques, or quest flags...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
INSOMNIA: The Ark scores 5/100 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/783170/insomnia-the-arkReviews 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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