Fuga: Melodies of Steel
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $16.03.
- Length
- 18.9h
- Value
- $2.12/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD 6870, 1 GB / GeForce GTX 460, 768 MB, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.
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
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $19.99. It has been discounted 33 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. No sale on record has reached $16.03, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Battle Brothers ($29.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Lost Eidolons ($34.99, scores 22).
The press gave it 84; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 377 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 123 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
95% start to 8% 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
9 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 14:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A relatively simple strategy game with a relatively simple story, but it makes excellent use of its medium. Frankly, the writing and the gameplay are each just mediocre on their own merit, but the way they work together elevates them to something really compelling, helped out by the evocative music and visual art. The basic ludonarrative conceit of the soul cannon is brilliant, though it could have been even more...
While I end up recommending Fuga, it ends up being more timidly than I expected at the start. The game left me with a great first impression. The combat mechanic is excellent with the right amount of depth yet a very smooth learning curve helped by the fact that your strategic options keep expanding as you unlock more crew members and abilities. The time management aspect is also very solid as you always feel like...
Overwhelmingly Positive I have played approximately over 230 games and none of them are my favorite games, until I discovered a legendary game called "Fuga: Melodies of Steel." This game absolutely overwhelmed me like I never have ever. Every minute I play gives me an excited feeling all the time. Very extraordinary the story, gameplay, and emotional game. All art is a masterpiece. Since I am Hunter Achievement, I...
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Cite this score
Fuga: Melodies of Steel scores 69/100 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/1357860/fuga-melodies-of-steelReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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