ROBOBEAT

ROBOBEAT

Worth it · Roguelike · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
8.8h
Value
$2.27/hr
Reviews
94% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
8.8h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.27
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
94%
1,847 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
83
critic score
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 3.5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Keep your trigger finger on the pulse! In rhythm shooter ROBOBEAT, you'll play as Ace - a bounty hunter on a mission to capture robot-gone-rogue Frazzer in his ever-shifting lair. Wall run, slide, and shoot to your own beat using the in-game custom music editor, blasting through Frazzer's armies!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews94% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.27/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length8.8 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds13 of 398 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $8.99. 26 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gunfire Reborn ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Heavy Bullets ($9.99, scores 54).

Critics scored it 83. Players sit 11 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Of the 398 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 418 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

97% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 08:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This game is awesome. Great combination of rhythm, fps, and roguelite mechanics. Tons of movement options (double jump, dash, wall jump, slide, grapple, teleport, grind rails etc) keeps this super fast paced and frenetic. On the flip side, the rhythmic nature of shooting encourages you to take your time to line up shots. Music can be changed at any time. While there are collectible music tapes in game, your are free...
ktjRecommendedafter 4.0hJul 2026Read on Steam
its such a fun game especially with turning of the 'hitting your shots on the beat' requirement just put on your favorite song and go nuts
entityladRecommendedafter 11hJul 2026Read on Steam
I think for some people this game can be awesome, but its a niche genre(rhythm game) mixed with a niche genre(roguelike) mixed with a first person shooter(popular but probably not the most overlap with all the other genres) and then boxed in entirely by another niche genre(soulslike). The soulslike genre is the one that seems to fit all the off-putting parts of the game such as clunky controls, punishing parry-based...
Insane SamuraiNot recommendedafter 24hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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ROBOBEAT scores 76/100 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/1456760/robobeat
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+11
Critics
83
Players
94
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,847 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSimon Fredholm
PublisherKwalee
GenreRoguelike
Released2024
Achievements38