30XX

30XX

Worth it · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
5.1h
Value
$3.92/hr
Reviews
90% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5.1h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
80.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.92
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
2,817 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
82
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: Most cards that can produce Graphics(tm), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.92/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length5.1 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds9 of 545 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was February 2026. It has been discounted 53 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Anomaly Agent ($11.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Portal Dungeon ($7.49, scores 66).

The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.

This site sampled 545 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 394 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 5.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 81, 16 times as much.

The drop-off

49% start to 6% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

16 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 06:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Well, ask and you shall receive. Whether that was planned or if influenced, either way it seems what was mildly lacking in 20XX was changed. Now we got a proper full-blown EIGHT Stages with their own unique bosses, mid-bosses, and once again, a BANGIN' Soundtrack! I also love how Nina slimmed that clunky armor for something sleek and more aerodynamic. And a visor with her hair flowin'? How stunning! The pixel...
musicalMastermindRecommendedafter 15hAug 2026Read on Steam
30XX takes the foundations of classic action platformers and reshapes them around the unpredictability and repeated progression of a modern roguelike. Developed and published by Batterystaple Games, it follows 20XX while significantly expanding the concept through randomized stages, distinct playable characters, cooperative multiplayer, persistent progression, and extensive customization. Instead of relying entirely...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 13hAug 2026Read on Steam
-This review is based on after the Exile Mode update- (The game is really damn good, buy it) I really like the game but I feel like they added some unnecessary stuff overtime, Especially with the characters. There's 7 characters to play but there's only like 1 character that's different. You got Nina and Ace, Their revernants which are just nerfed Nina and Ace, Delta that's just Nina and Ace mixed together along...
LazRecommendedafter 248hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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30XX scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1029210/30xx
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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Critics vs players+8
Critics
82
Players
90
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 2,817 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBatterystaple Games
PublisherBatterystaple Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Achievements50