Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.1h 5.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.44/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 230 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.18 or less.
Buy now or wait
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
Pilot the Megacopter, a sentient weapon that gains power by feeding on the blood of its enemies. Play through the campaign featuring seek and destroy, boss, rescue, and defense missions against the evil reptoid army. Upgrade Megacopter with the fabled AZ-TECH: ancient weaponry and armor.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 19 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Insect Swarm ($2.44, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Zombie Shooter ($4.99, scores 56).
More about Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess
1 of the 217 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026.
At 4.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
82% 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
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 09:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game has a really bad UI and lots of grammar errors, but it is still worth playing. The UIs for upgrades were the strangest, as there is lots of empty space for no reason. In the mission map screen, it is not possible to select other biomes with a controller, which is an obvious technical oversight. Gameplay is inspired by the Strike games of the '90s. Aiming was a bit difficult in regards to adjusting the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A beautiful throwback to the 90's-era isometric helicopter gunship shooter Desert Strike. You have no idea how long I've waited for something like this done tastefully and with reverence towards the original title. You pilot the Megacopter (btw that's how I'd call my ex-mother in law) and you are sent on various missions throughout the globe to stop the evil Reptoid forces: Epstein, Gates, Trump and other lunatics...
Not much to see here. I was looking for something reminiscent of the Jungle/Desert Strike, but this is definitely not it. Everything is kinda basic and repetitive. Not sure it makes a very good bullet hell either.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess scores 63/100 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/1228360/megacopter-blades-of-the-goddessReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.