Infected Shelter

Infected Shelter

Fair · Roguelike · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.

Length
3.1h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
85% of 540 positive

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
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
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

Infected Shelter is an ultra-violent rogue-lite post-apocalyptic beat'em up. Singleplayer and co-op for up to four players.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Value puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Rampage Knights ($12.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Never Split the Party (free, scores 44).

2 players were online in it when we last checked, on Oct 19, 03:52 UTC.

More about Infected Shelter

Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

64% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 19, 03:52 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

loads of great funny and absurd weapons and power-ups. Lots of fun, simple to play.
zenthaimassagesRecommendedafter 1.8hJul 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
At some points, there were so many effects on-screen that my FPS dropped to a minimum of about 14... 10/10
PasteRecommendedafter 9.2hJul 2025Read on Steam
Not recommended - it is repetitive and expects you to play it multiple times for the same content until it lets you beat it. The expected playtime is something like 8 to 12 hours, though you can beat it in 6 if you know the glitches. Maybe 1.0 hour is almost enjoyable and then it becomes a boring, repetitive slog. It is not worth beating. The ending is the usual indie classic of a picture and a couple paragraphs of...
QuietSageNot recommendedafter 7.7hJun 2025Read 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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Infected Shelter scores 62/100 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/926390/infected-shelter
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Reviews 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 Sep 28. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDark Blue Games
PublisherDark Blue Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2019
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements31