Time Wasters
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.5h
- Value
- $0.40/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Time Wasters is a space shooter bullet heaven roguelite. Equip and upgrade weapons, destroy swarms of enemies, and collect Time & Space Cubes to bend the timeline to your advantage.
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
August 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. It has been discounted 27 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 41 percent on value. It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Brotato ($4.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Extremely Powerful Capybaras ($4.19, scores 11).
This site sampled 596 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 236 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 12.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 34, 2.7 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 12.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
88% start to 7% 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 29, 05:53 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
How have I not written a review of this yet? Noticed I hadn't while checking (hopefully ngl) to see if there was some DLC (hint hint, devs). Seems there was a pretty solid update recently, as I have a bunch of new quests to do! But onto the game! This is probably my favorite of the Zombie Survivor likes (or "bullet heaven" games). The way they actually utilize time- and specifically how beneficial wasting it is- is...
Fun game to play for 20 or 40 minutes at a time. the progress is at a steady pace, really enjoyable. I recommend for casual fun gaming.
Really fun game. That Slay The Spire thing where they only give you a choice of 3 upgrades out of hundreds is super addictive for some reason. There are some really cool mechanics in this game, like the gold bug that delays your gold harvest but gives you more in the end, and the little outposts that you can also upgrade.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Time Wasters scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1290330/time-wastersReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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