Dust & Neon
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 11.8h 14.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.27/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 412 positive
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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
Rain down hell on the robot army in DUST & NEON, an award-winning best-in-class post-apocalyptic shooter where twitchy-finger gunslingers are rewarded with fame and glory.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce 650M or equivalent. Windows only.
The value story
30 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Full Mojo Rampage ($12.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons of Edera ($14.99, scores 19).
More about Dust & Neon
Of the 284 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 11.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
94% start to 2% 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
What players say
6.5/10 Dust and Neon is a flawed but good game. Pros: * The gameplay is fun. The manual reload mechanic is really cool, and it gives a deliberate feel to the gameplay (at least parts of it). I had several golden moments where I felt like John Wick; a master of precision, walking into a room, evaluating the number enemies, and taking them out, one by one. * The sound design is also good; guns generally sound punchy...
1 more review
Gateway drug into Roguelite games. It's very simple and repetitive, but still triggers that dopamine release when you kill a horde of enemies and collect a bunch of loot. I wish the maps had some randomisation in terms of layout to keep it more fresh. Perfect for short sessions. Runs perfectly on Steam Deck. I have a couple of critiques: * bomb run missions spike up in difficulty too much, I hardly managed to...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dust & Neon scores 40/100 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/1296450/dust-neonReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.