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Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Release DateJan 19, 2016
Price$ 19.99  Top 10%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)93% (very positive) Top 15% / 92.8%  Top 15%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)91.6% Top 2% / 91.5%  Top 2%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)93.5K  Top 1% / 104.4K  Top 1%
Curators453 reviews  Top 1%
Median Play Time75.8 hours  Top 1%
Play Time per Dollar3.8 hours  Top 3%
Followers316.4K  Top 1%
Owners± 2.8M  Top 1%
Copies Sold± 2.5M  Top 1%
Gross Revenue ($)± 30.7M  Top 1%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Scrap Mechanic steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see Scrap Mechanic's Steam rating and reviews between January 2016 and December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 85.5% (July 2018) and 92.8% (April 2023).

With 104.4K reviews Top 1%, Scrap Mechanic is an undeniable major AAA level success. Peaks in the chart suggest that major updates or discounts happened.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Scrap Mechanic and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows Scrap Mechanic's reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (45%), followed by Russian (18%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 28 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game has been translated in 11 languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying Scrap Mechanic percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in Scrap Mechanic, showing a comparison between positive and negative reviews. You can also see the reviews during the Early Access phase. You'll notice that the time played is very impressive, reaching 249 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 4.7 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. Some Scrap Mechanic players left negative reviews after playing for a long time (more than 96 hours for the top 20%), it can be a sign that a part of the fanbase was displeased about the evolution of the game and decided to review bomb it. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • sandbox capabilities
  • unique mechanisms
  • mod support
  • expandable tools
  • imaginative gameplay
  • cool mods
  • great for building mechanisms
  • something special
  • 3D environment
  • makes creating mechanisms easy
  • frequent robot raids
  • scarce resources
  • poor early game explanation
  • difficult to stop robot raids
  • repetitive gameplay
  • buggy
  • poorly paced
  • no tree regrowth
  • unenjoyable survival mechanics
  • abandoned development

These advantages and disadvantages are not meant to provide a fair assessment of the game, but to help developers identify potential improvements. The game's rating of 93%  Top 15% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of Scrap Mechanic's review data provided by Steam. Moreover, be aware that problems aren't always meant to be solved. Communicating clearly and managing the player's expectations is important too!

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