Cruelty Squad
Worth it · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9970% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.12/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 25,301
- Genre rank
- Top 15% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.4h
- To 100%
- 24.4h 3.8x the story
- Achievements
- 38
Price and sales
- Sales
- 42 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 53 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
40% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 42 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.57. The record reaches that level 21 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 15 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT ($3.24, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Psycho Patrol R ($39.99, scores 64).
More about Cruelty Squad
41 of the 798 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 3,128 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6.4 hours; clearing it takes 24, which is 3.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 28 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game really drives deep down into your consciousness. When you first play it, you will feel sick. You will have to take breaks. And you will feel like you'll have to vomit. Push through. Keep letting the game consume you. Eventually, you'll be able to consume it. Engage with NPCs. Implant the augments. Play with the consumables. It will change you as a person. I had Crohn's disease before playing this game. I...
2 more reviews
If you can get past the, let's say, avant-garde presentation, there's a really fun shooter here. The last level feels gimmicky, and I'd mostly had my fill of the game by then anyway, but I still had a great time.
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About the game
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050, 1004 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cruelty Squad scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1388770/cruelty-squadReviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.