Tesla Force
Skip · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $16.99.
- Length
- 4.6h 12h to 100%
- Value
- $3.69/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 241 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, at about $5.94 (65% off). Calls like this were right 89% 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
With science as your super power, charge up your coils and zap into action! Tesla Force is a rogue-lite top-down shooter featuring endless procedural gameplay with tentacle splitting action. Play as Tesla, Curie, Lovecraft and Shelley and blast the cosmic horror back into the galactic abyss!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, SM 3.0+, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 37 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 63 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Neon Chrome ($5.24, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeon Souls ($12.99, scores 37).
More about Tesla Force
HowLongToBeat players log 4.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 12, 2.6 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
71% start to 6% 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 grew up playing Smash TV at the local arcade, so i may be biased when i say i really like this game. It's a twin stick shooter with all of the carnage and fun inherent to such games. Are there bad sides? Dunno, i haven't found any. So, to summarize, if you like twinstick shooters, this one will delight you. If you don't, you could still have fun playing it.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's a cute little mini game and pretty identical to the game "Tesla Vs Lovecraft".. don't expect a revolution, it's a rogue like twinstick shooter with bare mechanics, few different characters, weapons, enemies and bosses mostly the samish stages in a questionable Lovecraft setting. There is no real story but also not that necessary for this type of game. Diff is also really easy.. mostly you just replay until the...
Do not buy this game! Was in Early Access, slapped 1.0 and made one more update/bug fix and then abandon the game. The end game loop is not there, and the last tier of weapons is not implemented. Sadly I found out this too late and I can not refund it. It is sad becasue I liked the first game, but you can feel that the game needed som more polish and it would had been just as great.
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Cite this score
Tesla Force scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1149710/tesla-forceReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.