The Cub

Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.43/day in the week to Jul 30 → 0.43/day in the week after.

For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.

Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.

Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.

Hours played at review time, across 63 reviews with recorded playtime.

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If I could I'd give this one a sideways thumb cuz i have some mixed feelings about it. There's a lot here to enjoy but also a lot that drags it down. The environments are mostly really cool and interesting. The atmosphere is superb and the art looks great. I loved the radio and most of the music was great (some songs were meh). The dystopian theme of environmental destruction in late-stage capitalism was poignant and I really appreciated it. I also liked the newspapers and message bots you could collect throughout the game which gave some backstory as to the events that occurred in alpha city before the game started. However, as many other reviewers mentioned the gameplay sucks. The character's acrions in certain circumstances are inconsistent (like sometimes he'll grab onto ledges and sometimes he won't, causing you to fall to your death. The height of his jumps changes too sometimes). There's also a problem with the frequent unfair/unavoidable deaths. This game is roughly 2-ish hours long but took me almost twice that length because I kept having to restart sections due to unfair deaths where something unforseen or unvavoidable would take me out. Some of it was my fault, sure, but a lot of it seemed like poor level design or intentionally cruel. You essentially have to memorize certain portions of the game to get through them without dying. Another thing that annoyed me, and it's a small personal thing, was some of the character's idle animations. I would stop to take in the view or to listen to the radio and the character would start howling. Like shut up kid, I'm trying to enjoy the scenery and music >:(, Or he'd take off his helmet and sit on it which would turn off the radio. Again, I'm trying to listen to the radio wtf are you doing kid?? Small issues but still annoying. I would recommend it but only on sale.