METAL DOGS
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.3h 12.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.17/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 798 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Set in a world after the destruction of humankind, the harsh battle of the combat dog "Pochi" begins. Explore dungeons that change every time you enter, get a wide variety of weapons, and power up your dog! Hunt the evil "WANTED"! Enjoy exhilarating battles casually in this shooting action game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11.0 compatible GPU with at least 1GB of VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 29 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 45 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 49 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Lizard Survivors: Battle for Hyperborea ($0.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors ($9.99, scores 49).
More about METAL DOGS
This site sampled 444 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 222 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Because nothing is more dangerous than a highly intelligent chihuahua that figured out how to strap a machine gun to its back and use it.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Simple, but fun. It's a diablo-isc game, but with cute puppies. It can feel a bit hollow as it feels like they could have expanded on a bit more things (map, co-op, a little more on "crafting" weapons) but otherwise a fun game to chill to. I hope that there'll be a second that expands on the idea that def has co-op mode.
Extremely mediocre dungeon crawler type game with very little variety. It's fun initially but once the novelty of "haha look at the funny dog with gun" wears off, it becomes increasingly obvious that the game has very little else.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
METAL DOGS scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1036740/metal-dogsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.