The Survivalists
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 22.5h
- Value
- $1.11/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 11 Graphics Adapter with 1 GB VRAM. Windows only.
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
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
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in December 2023. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 53 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 23 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tinkerlands ($12.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Niffelheim ($19.99, scores 26).
2 of the 599 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 803 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 22.5 hours. Doing everything runs 48, 2.1 times as long.
The drop-off
94% start to 2% 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
Players
27 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 20:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I feel bad leaving a negative review but this game just feels unfinished and untested. It just feels like a chore to play at times. The escapists 2 is just so much better, I was very disappointed, this has so much potential.
Its a fun little game to play with friends but there are issues. Starting with good - monkey mechanic is briliant - training your own team of monkeys to automate all mundane things in survival crafting games and leave you to explore and do meaningful things. Game has an end goal which is awesome. Just survivng could be backed up with actual end game objectives - so great job. But here are the bad things: Combat is...
Okay game. Item management is way too much of a chore. Even with the monkeys. Backpack is way too small to make exploration enjoyable. Late-weapons break after beating up 6-7 enemies forcing you to bring multiple weapons in limited inventory. You can find backpack upgrades but they only add very few spaces. Menu UI is very bad. Our quest list was huge with things like "find a flimsy shovel" in a camp which was right...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Survivalists scores 43/100 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/897450/the-survivalistsReviews 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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