Alien Hominid HD
Worth it · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.37.
- Length
- 4.2h 8.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 622 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.37 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
The 2D side-scrolling shooter from The Behemoth is back! With your mighty blaster and a group of mysterious kids by your side, destroy the agency and reclaim your spaceship!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Radeon R7 or Geforce GTX 770, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
20 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. $5.37 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cuphead ($19.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef ($19.99, scores 65).
More about Alien Hominid HD
This site sampled 328 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 420 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 231 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
68% start to 3% 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
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 15:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Really cool but really short for a game that costs this much, buy it when its on discount
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
infuriating gameplay, enemies, bosses, and levels and one shot death the aliens cute I guess 10/10
This game did not age well at all. Loved it on flash, PS2, and GBA and now I realize it's because my brain wasn't developed yet.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Alien Hominid HD scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1285360/alien-hominid-hdReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.