Oakwood

Oakwood

Fair · Short indie · 2018

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.2h 2h to 100%
Value
$4.16/hr
Reviews
86% of 560 positive
It needs 41% off ($2.94) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.94 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

Raising the score
Engagement45% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.16/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 349 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

About the game

Welcome to Oakwood, a long abandoned campground nestled in the forests of British Columbia. Explore the woods, caves, and a dilapidated lodge in search of your friends, while surviving the prehistoric horrors that now haunt the grounds.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 650 or better, Radeon HD 7770 or better, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 69 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 55 percent, about 5 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 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DEVOUR ($9.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Welcome to the Game II ($9.99, scores 58).

More about Oakwood

Steam's global achievement data puts 45 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 349 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 347 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 67 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

92% start to 45% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 18:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I had a fun time playing through this. only about an hour long, but its a good time. Definitely worth your time/money, especially while on sale.
Jive_TofurkeyRecommendedafter 1.0h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
10/10 Dinosaur game. Absolutely terrifying chase sequences that will keep you on the edge of your seat. 100% This game achievements during all this pressure is very rewarding.
AI botRecommendedafter 2.0hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Oakwood scores 61/100 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/890970/oakwood
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBreaking Dimensions
PublisherBreaking Dimensions
GenreShort indie
Released2018
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13