Steel Assault
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 1.3h 4h to 100%
- Value
- $11.53/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 446 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 $11.24 (25% 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
Punch, whip, and zipline your way through a post-apocalyptic America in this 16-bit retro-style action platformer! Play as Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 9600 GT or Radeon HD 3870, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
32 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 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 49 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. On the same math Blazing Chrome ($16.99, scores 55) and BZZZT ($11.99, scores 75) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Steel Assault
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 3 of the 385 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 221 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 57 percent of everything written about it.
1.3 hours to finish it, 4 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
69% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Whoa, not bad, not bad at all! A love letter to old Mega Drive arcade platformers! With awesome eye-candy pixel art, great tight gameplay, tough levels, even tougher bosses, and a crazy good soundtrack to top it all off. Made me remember some old games I erased from my memory. Good stuff!
2 more reviews
If you loved games like Gunstar Heroes on the Sega Megadrive / Genesis, then this is for you!
High Level Action Platformer! A beautiful intense pixel art game, with a cool protagonist and challenging encounters. Keeping consistency during gameplay is the key to completion. It requires a lot of focus, concentration and fearlessness. Similar to Castlevania games, the player has a powerful whip, crouch slide (with cooldown) that has iframes and double jump! Knowing how to take advantage from positioning and...
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Cite this score
Steel Assault scores 30/100 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/1280300/steel-assaultReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.