Endling - Extinction is Forever

Endling - Extinction is Forever

Fair · Strategy · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
95% positive
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Price
$29.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
3,654 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
75
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 760 2GB/ Radeon R9 270X 2GB or better, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

As the last mother fox on Earth, your cubs need all your care to survive in a merciless world that slowly destroys itself. You have to help them, teach them and save them. And you should never forget that extinction is forever – in the real world and in this 2023 BAFTA award winning experience.
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

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
Raising the score
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement30% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 452 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

It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dordogne ($14.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Shelter 2 ($24.99, scores 42).

Critics scored it 75. Players sit 20 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 3 of the 452 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 187 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

The drop-off

94% start to 30% 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

5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 23:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

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Endling - Extinction is Forever scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/898890/endling-extinction-is-forever
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Reviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+20
Critics
75
Players
95
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 3,654 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHerobeat Studios
PublisherTHQ Nordic Mobile
GenreStrategy
Released2022
Achievements28