Maniac
Worth it · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Ever just tired of it all? Ready for change? Wanna bet it all on sheer mayhem and destruction? In comes Maniac, a rogue-lite crime action game in which the world goes against you, and your insanity creates chaos!
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
The lowest price on record is $1.24, set in June 2026. 17 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, UBERMOSH Vol.5 ($0.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Bounty of One ($2.79, scores 66).
Of the 460 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 589 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 35, 18 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
66% start to <1% 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
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 04:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This was pretty fun. I love the idea more than what's actually here. But its still solid. I think my only two real gripes with it is I would have liked to see more of a push for build types and maybe replace the upgrade merchant with randomly generated simple missions. I.E race to this point in x amount of time. Deliver this thing to x. Destroy x building For $5 and workshop support, its a sleeper hit
The menu controls are really wonky on controller, and I somehow wiped my character progress while manhandling my Deck :'(. I had fun until then, tho.
This game is simple yet somehow don't know why we got entertain by it. addictive, lots of fun and funny. worth to try guys this game is ridiculous.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Maniac scores 72/100 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/1482380/maniacReviews 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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