CryoFall

CryoFall

Skip · Multiplayer · 2021

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 48, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
30h
Value
$0.67/hr
Reviews
78% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
30h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.67
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
78%
6,471 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 512 MB video memory, Shader Model 4.0+, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.

CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.67/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length30 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds7 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

The value story

January 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 80 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stationeers ($34.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats XERA: Survival (free, scores 17).

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 364 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

Players

59 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 19:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
CryoFall scores 48/100 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/829590/cryofall
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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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAtomicTorch Studio
PublisherDaedalic Entertainment
GenreMultiplayer
Released2021