Flotsam
Fair · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 19h
- Value
- $1.32/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or equivalent, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old 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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $12.49. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 46 in the 7 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blacksmith Master ($19.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Sapiens ($24.99, scores 34).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 342 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 19 hours; clearing it takes 73, which is 3.8 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
53% 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
What players say
A really addicting city builder game with a cool twist. Just enough to keep track of without getting too overwhelmed. Doesn't overstay its welcome. There are a few QoL changes I would like to suggest. 1. Have a marker showing us how many of a building we have. 2. Have a marker showing us new constructions. 3. Have a setting in production to have a minimum amount to keep stored. Probably the most annoying thing not...
Very fun city builder game! Plays straightforward, and had me always thinking about my next move. My only quibble is that sometimes I would be stuck for a while on one irreplacable thing and so I'd have to just sail around until I found that one thing, which could take time.
Tried twice with months in between. It has the bones of a great game here but the game is broken in some places. Sometimes your villagers will just stand around rather than doing any of the jobs you assign them. For example, you give research the highest priority for one or multiple pawns, even dropping or eliminating priority on other tasks and they still just stand there. The only way to restart research is to...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Flotsam scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/821250/flotsamReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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