METALLIC CHILD
Fair · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.2h
- Value
- $1.89/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 / AMD Radeon R7260X, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
“Grab, hurl, and eliminate” Rogue-lite Core-Action!! A large-scale rebellion erupts within the spacecraft “Life Stream.” With the help of you, Rona, an android known as “Metallic Child,” stands up against a fleet of massive robots to stop the plot devised by her own creator, Doctor Irene.
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
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was September 2023. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 32 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Garden of Witches ($18.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Cursorblade ($1.99, scores 60).
3 of the 478 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 182 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
60% start to 16% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I discovered this game way back in 2021, and admittedly downloaded it for free on IGGGames. To my surprise, i fell in love with it rather quickly. And I'd return to it frequently. It is a roguelite through and through, but it definitely has it's own identity. You really have to play it to find out. In a short time of messing around in the game, the mechanics suddenly "click", and you get hooked. I forgot all about...
Hard to believe this game released back in 2021, time flies alright.... This is a really fun game, only hard part is the boss obviously. Sometimes you can cheap them out if you have good cores you've "tried your best" to keep all the way to the boss and other times you are just screwed. I still hate that my friend who made it (and his team now I guess) updated the game to only have stages before fighting the boss up...
Bosses are a little on the spongey side. Rooms get full of enemies and frantic at times, to where you can tell it wasn't play-tested or planned out very much. Enemies also attack way too often, to the point where you can't create a gameplan that involves anything other than poking and running away or dodging and blocking constantly. And the other thing is, your defensive options aren't good enough to give you a way...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
METALLIC CHILD scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1490610/metallic-childReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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