Micro Mages
Fair · Action · 2019
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$9.99Fair
On its price record
$2.67BANGER
- Length
- 1.2h 3.3h to 100%
- Value
- $8.33/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 444 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.67 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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
Micro Mages is a platformer developed for the original 8-bit NES console. Now on Steam! ROM included. Play solo or with up to 4 players simultaneously. Compete over score or cooperate to overcome challenging levels.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 34 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 8 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $2.67, a level the record has reached 6 times.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Door Kickers: Action Squad ($13.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Shift Happens ($1.59, scores 52).
More about Micro Mages
None of the 269 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 208 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.2 hours. Doing everything runs 3, 2.8 times as long.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 14:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's great, simple fun. Nothing extravagant, but it doesn't feel clunky & you can climb the skill ceiling to get faster. Death isn't too punishing, & the encounters are well designed. I got this game on sale for a 1$, more than worth the purchase!
2 more reviews
Good game, simple but good. It's one of those games I'd pick up and play for like 5 minutes after a rough day of work
Masterfully minimalistic piece of art. Truly an excellent exemplar of subtractive game design! The way the super attack is used as a double jump is incredibly clever! And of course the fact that it is coop is amazing. I also love how 1 of the items just exists to troll your friends >:3c
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
Micro Mages scores 62/100 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/1065020/micro-magesReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.