Ex-Zodiac
Fair · Shooter · 2022 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $11.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.4h
- Value
- $8.56/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Drivers with support for OpenGL 2.1, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A fast-paced low-poly 3D rail shooter heavily inspired by classics of the early 90's. Join protagonist Kyuu as she fights to free the worlds of the Sanzaru Star System, overrun by the intergalactic terrorist organization known as Zodiac.
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 $4.79. That was December 2025. 41 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 31 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bleed ($4.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Blazing Chrome ($16.99, scores 55).
This site sampled 359 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 670 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 70 percent of everything written about it.
1.4 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
69% start to <1% 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
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 23:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Gorgeous, fun, thoughtfully designed on-rails shooter like Panzer Dragoon, Star Fox, and Space Harrier.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ex-Zodiac scores 58/100 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/1249480/ex-zodiacReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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