变量 Variables

变量 Variables

Fair · Roguelike · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $1.09, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2019. Buy it now if you want it.

Reviews
86% of 1,022 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.

Buy now or wait

It is 90% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
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
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 294 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

About the game

We created this unique single player game with a combination of Tower Defence and Roguelike. Come and create your maze, build your turret, defeat the invaders, and save the world!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, nVIDIA GeForce GTX 750M, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 46 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.09 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons ($6.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Overdungeon ($7.49, scores 51).

More about 变量 Variables

None of the 294 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to June 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

79% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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变量 Variables scores 63/100 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/1054800/variables
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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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAsteroid Game Studio
PublisherAsteroid Game Studio
GenreRoguelike
Released2019
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements40