Fallback
Fair · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4h 23h to 100%
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 399 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 960, AMD Radeon R9 280, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 60 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 43 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 60 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Anomaly Agent ($11.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats BELOW ($24.99, scores 24).
More about Fallback
72 from critics against 85 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 225 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to June 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 23, 5.8 times as much.
The drop-off
78% start to 3% 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
Hey, wait a minute, this game is actually good? Thats a quote from my friend after he watched me play this game for a little. Its not surprising though because if you only play the game once, the first hour is absolute dookie. Your character is ridiculously slow, weak, squishy, and talentless. Only after an hour of playing will you have amassed the needed in game currency to upgrade your base stats (and they affect...
2 more reviews
It's got a lot of spirit, but has some issues in places. With the right approach, it's a pretty fun rogue-like, but at the moment, it's also easy to run into some annoying experiences. This review is probably overly thorough, so just read the last paragraph if you're not really stuck on whether to buy it or not. Moving through the 3 dimensional environment through connected 2 dimensional planes takes a bit of...
Fallback is a challenging Rogue-lite where timing and ennemy pattern learning is key. You'll get frustrated, but you will go back because you know you can make it to the end. And that's why it's a good Rogue-lite! The skill tree offers enough different playstyles and you will quickly find your own set of favorite upgrades. The 2.5D is gorgeous and the camera movement are really giving a nice visual dimension to the...
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Cite this score
Fallback scores 55/100 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/864540/fallbackReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.