Gal*Gun Returns
Skip · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$49.99Skip
On its price record
$12.01Fair
- Length
- 2.1h 41.8h to 100%
- Value
- $23.80/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 363 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.01 or less.
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
The infamous ecchi rail-shooter is back! Fight back with pheromones as girls throw themselves at you and try to find true love in less than a day! Discover a beautifully reimagined version of the first game of the series that never came to the west!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 370, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 43 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Blue Estate The Game ($1.03, scores 85) outscores it, and so does Beach Invasion 1944 ($9.99, scores 42). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Gal*Gun Returns
Steam's global achievement data puts about 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 3 of the 238 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to August 2026.
The main story runs 2.1 hours. Doing everything runs 42, 20 times as long.
The drop-off
36% start to 20% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 16:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Because this game is the remastered version of the first GalGun game, it's mechanics are a lot simpler than its sequels. However, it is still quite entertaining. The achievements, however, are a lot more time consuming than the sequels.
1 more review, not recommended
This game is awkward, and not just in the context of the story but in the gameplay itself. It's a light gun game which I can appreciate but feels odd using a controller instead of… well a light gun. Since you are using a controller you will often have trouble getting all your shots in at the short windows you have to actually hit some of these speeding targets or your characters need to dart their eyes to other...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Gal*Gun Returns scores 33/100 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/1425730/gal-gun-returnsReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.