Beat Blast
Fair · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $10.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.4h
- Value
- $1.17/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 420 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
Create musical beats that kill. Beat Blast is a music maker, bullet hell, dungeon crawler, roguelite. Battle through dungeons and defeat big bosses. Collect weapons, passives and musical instruments!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 36 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 27 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Binding of Isaac ($4.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).
More about Beat Blast
This site sampled 340 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
88% start to 1% 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
What players say
i found out about this game via alphabetagamer, sometime before covid. now having recently graduated highschool, this game is everything 12/13 yr old me wanted. (the only thing i dont like is the way they drew the main character in the cutscene/promotional art, but that isn't gameplay related so it's not important)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A really fun game, quite a lot of customization in regards to music and sounds too.
This is a game that truly had a lot of potential. But it simply doesn't deliver. The enemies AI is lack luster and you will often suffer from irrational movement patterns. You can hardly ever see all the enemies. Which is a problem because it makes running/dogging attacks a risk in it of itself. Then, you also have horrible upgrades that are usually not noticeable. Then the equipment which is locked to your first...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Beat Blast scores 65/100 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/1072640/beat-blastReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.