The Anacrusis
Skip · Multiplayer · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 46% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, DX11-compatible GPU, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Battle for survival against endless alien hordes with your friends! The Anacrusis is a first-person shooter that dynamically adjusts difficulty to you. Experience intense 1-4 player co-op action or play as the aliens and stop your friends in 1-8 player Versus mode. Full Steam Workshop support!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was May 2024. 25 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Contagion ($9.99, scores 35) and Destiny 2 (free, scores 49) both outscore it.
Of the 493 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 229 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 276 reviews written there were positive, against 46 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
33% start to 2% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 04:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
☄️ Well, this is truly the closest thing to L4D, but players haven't given it a chance, which is a shame. With gradual content updates and polish, this would've been a solid project. Still, I wasn't expecting anything special, but it's fun! Guns, temporary upgrades, special aliens, even the extra modes - everything works as it should. The retro-futuristic space environment looks great (and I'm not even a big fan of...
Had a blast playing with my friend. Very colourful and fun maps, good characters, really funky music and satisfying shooting which wild for a UE4 game. A solid good time.
When I first saw one of Tyler McVicker's video, I was captivated by all the retrofuturistic beauty this game had to offer. I tried it out back when it was in Early Access and on Xbox Game Pass (which was still cool back then compared to today). Since it comes from the creator of the Left 4 Dead franchise, there was a lot of hype surrounding it and plenty of people to play with. However, if you look at SteamDB today...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Anacrusis scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1120480/the-anacrusisReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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