Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX

Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX

Fair · Action · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.2h
Value
$4.68/hr
Reviews
90% positive
It needs 28% off ($10.74) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
3.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
10.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.68
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
795 reviews, as of Sep 28
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2GB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce), 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Experience the apeX of 2D action! A new era of 2D action begins now! Get ready for high-speed, stylish 2D side-scrolling action like never before. Inti Creates presents the ultimate in classic 2D action with "Luminous Avenger iX"!
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 Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement40% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.68/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length3.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 356 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

The lowest price on record is $6.74, set in September 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 66 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Celeste ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Gravity Circuit ($16.99, scores 61).

Steam's global achievement data puts 40 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 356 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 3.2 hours; clearing it takes 11, which is 3.3 times the campaign.

The drop-off

80% start to 40% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1085180/gunvolt-chronicles-luminous-avenger-ix
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperINTI CREATES CO., LTD.
PublisherINTI CREATES CO., LTD.
GenreAction
Released2019
Achievements15