Contra Anniversary Collection
Skip · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.9h
- Value
- $2.53/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4400 (VRAM 128MB), 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The Contra Anniversary Collection brings this classic Run and Gun franchise back to modern platforms and a new generation of gamers.
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 $3.99, set in December 2021. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 49 in the 7 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, METAL SLUG ($7.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats METAL SLUG XX ($19.99, scores 0).
This site sampled 558 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 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, 133 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 612 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.9 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
At 7.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
11% start to 2% 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
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 20:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I want to preface this by saying that as much as I enjoyed the collection, it has no business being $20, at much is $15 but ideally you get it for less. You realistically get 7 games here: Contra Arcade, Contra (NES/Famicom), Super Contra, Super C, Contra 3, Operation C and Contra Hard Corps. If you're only buying this for one game like Contra, Contra 3 or Hard Corps, then there are "other" methods that won't cost...
You are basically buying this game to play Contra 3. All the other games are way to retro to play. So for a game this old they are charging way too much as $25. wait for it to be about $5. 7/10
The games are classic, but the ports is terrible. Audio files are corrupted which I'm assuming Konami will never fix. Missing control remapping. Very lazy company. Shouldn't be surprised after their long run of messing up ports. No quality control apparently.
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Cite this score
Contra Anniversary Collection scores 34/100 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/1018020/contra-anniversary-collectionReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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