Cruelty Squad
Worth it · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.75.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $3.08/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050, 1004 MB of storage. Windows only.
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 6 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.75. The record reaches that level 20 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Receiver 2 ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Skin Deep ($19.99, scores 56).
39 of the 798 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 3,102 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6.5 hours; clearing it takes 25, which is 3.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
40% start to 5% 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
50 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
this game is visually disorienting, completely deranged, and feels like it hates me for playing it.
One of the finest FPS games I have ever played, a psychedelic trip into a crazy world of crime, guns, organ selling and the stock market all with a fast paced intense soundtrack with tons of variety! Cruelty Squad is absolutely stellar, the game was living in my head rent free before, during and after playing it, so many people mentioning it to me, then I finally played it and it all makes sense, the crazy artwork...
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Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Cruelty Squad scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1388770/cruelty-squadThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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