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Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 85%Very Positive · 85%2015

$8.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago

The verdict

A charming, darkly funny bunker-survival game with a frantic opening scramble, but the survival part is mostly reading text and luck. Skip it if you want depth or lasting replayability; Reatomized is the better buy.

Great for

Players who like dark humor, text-driven choices and short, chaotic sessions, especially on sale

Main risk

It gets repetitive within a few hours, and outcomes feel decided by RNG rather than your choices

What players love

Tough choices and many endings

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“its entertaining because there are soooo many endings you can get.”
Steam review · 8.7 h played ↗

“Lots of decisions, not always positive, a huge number of endings, and every survival feels new thanks to random events!”
Steam review · translated · 2.2 h played ↗

“the choices you make matter, keep your family alive ,or let your daughter turn into a mutant i suppose”
Steam review · 28.4 h played ↗

Good casual time-killer for the price

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“It's easy to just hop on and play for a bit without thinking too much.”
Steam review · 5.9 h played ↗

“I think it was worth the price. It's silly, and fun to mess around with for a few hours.”
Steam review · 5.7 h played ↗

Dark humor and charming art style

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews

“Full of charm, full of personality.”
Steam review · 2.9 h played ↗

“Stylish, ironic, replayable "Fallout for the poor". Black humor and a variety of endings in a pin-up era atmosphere.”
Steam review · translated · 5.4 h played ↗

“The dark humor really carries it, especially when things start going wrong fast.”
Steam review · 7.1 h played ↗

Frantic, stressful 60-second scramble

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews

“most stressful first 60 seconds of a game i have ever played”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

“You spend 60 seconds screaming your head off while running in your house, grabbing stuff, wondering which family member will be left to die.”
Steam review · 13.1 h played ↗

“The opening scramble to grab supplies before the bomb drops is stressful, silly, and never goes the same way twice.”
Steam review · 7.1 h played ↗

Addictive and replayable runs

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews

“Every run tells a different story, and balancing food, water, and impossible choices never gets old.”
Steam review · 2.4 h played ↗

“this game is still very adictive , even afert more than a decade”
Steam review · 5.3 h played ↗

Fun to play with friends or family

Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews

“Fun game, I like teaming up with my family on making decisions.”
Steam review · 18.4 h played ↗

“I played with a group, role-playing each character.”
Steam review · translated · 34.6 h played ↗

What players complain about

Gets repetitive quickly

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“It gets very repetitive after only 2 games, you have to keep reading the same status updates over and over again.”
Steam review · 3.6 h played ↗

“The events are boring after you have seen them 3-4 times on repeat playthroughs”
Steam review · 2.9 h played ↗

“At first the game is interesting, but after playing 2-3 times it gets boring. The gameplay becomes predictable.”
Steam review · translated · 1.6 h played ↗

Outcomes feel like pure RNG

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“I don't even feel good after winning a game, because I don't feel like I did anything to win, it's either the game lets you, or it doesn't.”
Steam review · 59.4 h played ↗

“about 95% of the game is just hoping you will get a good outcome from events”
Steam review · 2.5 h played ↗

“Such an idiotic gameplay system kills all interest in the game right after the first playthroughs.”
Steam review · translated · 6.6 h played ↗

Shelter phase is passive, mostly reading

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“The problem with the second part, which takes up most of the game, is that it's very passive.”
Steam review · 0.7 h played ↗

“the other 58 minutes is spent flipping through pages basically just reading text and answering questions.”
Steam review · 9.9 h played ↗

“It all comes down to one minute of arcade scavenging, then every day clicking the journal and reading what happens.”
Steam review · translated · 0.7 h played ↗

Too short and overpriced for content

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“This game has HUGE lack of content at the moment, definitely not worth 10€.”
Steam review · 4.2 h played ↗

“i dont wana pay like 10 bucks for 2 hours of fun”
Steam review · 6.7 h played ↗

Clunky scavenging controls and bugs

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“has poor controls, poor hit detection for grabbing things (which is REALLY important!), needless slowdowns, and delays in picking up items after clicking them”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗

“Awful controls in the gathering mode, in every control scheme.”
Steam review · translated · 1.4 h played ↗

Reatomized is better, this version outdated

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews

“you'd be better off just getting 60 Seconds Re-Atomized; it's the remastered version with more content overall and is only $1 more than what this is currently selling for.”
Steam review · 3.2 h played ↗

“The game lost its point with the release of the improved Reatomized version.”
Steam review · translated · 10.6 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Minimum

OSWindows XP SP3 (32/64 bit) or later

ProcessorIntel Core™ 2 Duo 2.0+ GHz or an equivalent AMD CPU

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsnVidia GeForce 8800 GT or AMD Radeon HD2900 XT (with 512MB VRAM)

Storage3 GB available space

OSWindows XP SP3 (32/64 bit) or later

ProcessorIntel Core™ 2 Duo 2.0+ GHz or an equivalent AMD CPU

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsnVidia GeForce 8800 GT or AMD Radeon HD2900 XT (with 512MB VRAM)

Storage3 GB available space

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