Geometry Arena

Geometry Arena

Worth it · Roguelike · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $5.99.

Length
0.3h
Value
$19.97/hr
Reviews
96% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
0.3h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$19.97
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$5.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
96%
2,415 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX760, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

A free-form arena-shooter Roguelite with heavy emphasis on building an overpowered character! You play as a little shape that shoots other shapes! Strengthen your character by mixing and matching mods and upgrades, and experiment with a limitless rune upgrade system!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$19.97/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length0.3 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 384 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

January 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 67 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nova Drift ($17.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Cursorblade ($1.99, scores 60).

This site sampled 384 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 257 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

96% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 12:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Geometry Arena is a deceptively deep top-down action game that uses minimalist visuals to mask a surprisingly rich and flexible gameplay system. Developed and published by 011 Games, the game initially presents itself as a simple arena shooter built from glowing geometric shapes, but it quickly reveals a layered roguelite structure that emphasizes experimentation, long-term progression, and player-driven build...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hJan 2026Read on Steam
The upgrade system is to cluncky and boring on later stages, going endless is a chore.
AcuruNot recommendedafter 2.6hMar 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Geometry Arena scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1255650/geometry-arena
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer011 Games
Publisher011 Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2021
Achievements124