Nauticrawl
Fair · Strategy · 2019
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $4.28/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 499 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.30 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
About the game
A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2GB - Radeon R7 260 2GB / GTX 750 Ti 2GB, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 43 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Umurangi Generation ($7.49, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats OneShift ($0.79, scores 43).
More about Nauticrawl
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 318 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
47% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 1, 21:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
i reximend this game if you want to feel like a new born baby figuring out the box with holes in it and what shapes go where.
2 more reviews
If you're looking for a low commitment puzzle game to fill a half hour or an hour here and there, but still feel like you're making progress, this is a good one! In short, I'd fit in this into the Parent-Game category. Not especially challenging, but in the beginning you get the sense that everything is limited and a precious resource, then you become the pilot you're supposed to be, and can traverse the depths with...
Apparently I'm super late to the party, haven't heard of this game before. I got Nauticrawl for $2.37 and it was definitely worth $2.37. It is not worth the $14.99 base price at all lol, especially 7 years after release. When I got to the credits I was like ??that's it??? all that buildup and it's just over? I'm a big fan of brutally unhelpful games (that aren't combat-based because I have boomer hands) and this is...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nauticrawl scores 66/100 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/922100/nauticrawlReviews 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.