Journey To The Savage Planet
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $4.22/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 | AMD Radeon HD 7950. Windows only.
"WELCOME TO THE PIONEER PROGRAM! As the newest recruit of Kindred Aerospace - The 4th best interstellar space exploration company - Your job is to determine if the planet ARY-26 planet is fit for humans. You may be short on equipment and experience, but you'll figure it out. Good luck!
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
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was November 2025. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 16 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. PIT OF GOBLIN ($5.99, scores 52) outscores it, and so does Mirror's Edge™ ($19.99, scores 55). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 550 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
7.1 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
At 7.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
95% 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
What players say
Pretty cool game. Combat is simple yet entertaining, platforming and exploration is well made and I really enjoyed the humour. And when it all starts getting boring, the game ends, I like that too! Would be nice to see predators actually hunting prey once in a while and not just me.
The gameplay is a fun take on the metroidvania formula where you mostly collect stuff, find secrets and explore the strange but very interesting locations. It's the usual "maybe I can access this area later when I find the right gadget" schtick and it can get very same-y especially near the end but I definitely enjoyed most of it. The combat is a bit mid, you have all sorts of powers/gadgets at your disposal but...
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Cite this score
Journey To The Savage Planet scores 48/100 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/973810/journey-to-the-savage-planetReviews 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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