Protolife
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $11.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.9h 19h to 100%
- Value
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 470 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.30 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 support, 256 MB VRAM, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 36 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rusted Warfare - RTS ($4.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Revenge of the Titans ($14.99, scores 52).
More about Protolife
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 200 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
79% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 01:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This has a similar feel to Creeper World.. If the creeper was actually as menacing as it's said to be. Like the infection does *not* know the word chill. Jokes aside, it's a solid little game. Here's for the pro and cons : + Simple to pick up gameplay loop + Very unique style, building is done in a very unique way! + Great enemy variety, it's usually an issue with these games, but not here, plenty of unique threats...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Very fun and surprsingly intricate. Very nice blend of tower defense with a little action: while no level requires it too much you can always go faster and try to win even the timed missions early with some surprisingly intense active play.
Great concept. The mission/map generator is complete junk - no consistency in challenge
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Protolife scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/809440/protolifeReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.