The Citadel
Fair · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$14.99Fair
On its price record
$4.82BANGER
- Length
- 5.7h
- Value
- $2.63/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 820M 1GB VRAM, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.
The Citadel is a brutal first person shooter, and a love letter to classic games such as Marathon, Doom and Wolfenstein 3d. Descend into the depths of a dark citadel, and fight through 6 Episodes and 30 levels of action packed with 6 challenging bosses. Go forth, Martyr.
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
November 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. It has been discounted 29 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 11 weeks between sales. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.82. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, HROT ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Maximum Action ($19.99, scores 45).
Of the 458 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 312 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Players
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 18:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
6/10 it's a pretty decent boomer shooter, fun gunplay and weapon variety it's not very hard, which is good because it's annoying in places. especially the platforming and crashes The anime gore is weird but...it's just weird The story/setting could be interesting but isn't and I think it's probably a budget/translation issue. Like a bitmap background that isn't a blackscreen would be appreciated instead of...
A total hidden gem, the gameplay is so satisfying for the entire run and the levels are very enjoyable to navigate. Would Highly recommend to any boomer shooter fan!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Citadel scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1378290/the-citadelReviews 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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