Mecha Knights: Nightmare
Fair · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $15.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $2.22/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 970 4GB, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Mecha action shooter, plunging the player into an apocalyptic war. Engage in epic battles with endless hordes of monsters in your powerful customizable mechs.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $6.39. Its cuts run 55 percent off as a rule. There have been 49 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games closest to it, ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ ($59.99, scores 57) and Vox Machinae ($29.99, scores 52) both come in lower.
7 of the 432 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 281 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 01:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Janky and low budget, but still fun to play. It could use a lot more polish, especially in making some weapon choices more viable, more enemy movement patterns (they all follow a straight line towards you or an objective) and in map variety - the mission where you have to defend the ships from swarms of flying enemies sucks hard. However, since the solo dev moved on to the sequel, we're stuck with this as it is. For...
Fun little mech game. A bit slow pacing at first but it picks up and then the expansion really takes it to the next level. Upgrade your allies!
This is the game every 10yo boy would make if they were in charge of game design. Or at least I would have and it's great. Wanna run around in giant mechs and blow endless hordes up with equally magnificent weapons? Look no further and support this game so we hopefully get to see more of this game in the future. Yes I know it looks a little crude but the underlying game is solid and for the price I have absolutely...
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Cite this score
Mecha Knights: Nightmare scores 65/100 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/1163870/mecha-knights-nightmareReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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