Volcanoids
Fair · Shooter · 2019 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.9h
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 470 / AMD RadeonHD 5850, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
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 $13.99, set in August 2022. It has been discounted 44 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 39 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Green Hell ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Voidtrain ($29.99, scores 32).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 43 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 193 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 855 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to <1% 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
19 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 04:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's just a massively unfinished product. A lot of the game needs to be entirely reworked. It has a great concept. I believe it has the potential to be a really good game, but it seems to have been in Early Access for quite some time now and I don't believe it will ever be a finished product. Devs seem more concerned with pumping out additional content than fine-tuning the base game and fixing existing issues...
Volcanoids is a hard one for me because I was actually the guy who convinced my friends to buy it I really liked the concept, the volcano erupts and the whole world becomes unlivable so you have to hide underground with your drillship, build it, upgrade it and slowly go deeper into the map But the more I played the more everything started to feel unfinished Crafting is a bit too complicated, enemies are incredibly...
Easily some of the most enjoyable combat in a PVE game I've yet played, paired with lovely sound design, beautiful model work/animations, and a stunning adherence to its concept. it runs surprisingly well despite its visual complexity. It has fallen into a similar trap as scrap mechanic with extended development of massive content leaving the base game behind, but I still look forward for the day it comes out fully...
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Cite this score
Volcanoids scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/951440/volcanoidsReviews 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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