Madshot
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.4h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 286 positive
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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
Madshot is a fast-paced, acrobatic, rogue-lite shooter. Survive the ever-changing road through Cthulhu and beyond. Equip endless upgrade combinations as you fight your way through horrific monsters and multi-phased boss battles.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 36 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 45 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre. On the same math Haste ($11.99, scores 76) and Fury Unleashed ($1.99, scores 63) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Madshot
This site sampled 208 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
68% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 00:51 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Madshot is a competent roguelike platformer, with great art, good action, heavy soundtrack and a compelling meta-progressions system. The visuals and art are the best part of the game, just insane aesthetics! The scenario variety is pretty great, the effects are fantastic, the artwork is enchanting, the designs are out of this world (literally), and how the blood from killed enemies runs to the portal in order to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
50k enemies? That's not an achievement, that's cardio training. 🏃♂️💀 I was done at 20k already, grinding the rest is a bit painful… But the game is super fun and worth it - definitely recommend!
I am mad at Madshot... no, it would be more appropriate to say that I'm mad at the devs behind Madshot, because what is on offer is pretty good... as a foundation, which is never built upon further. Five weapons, multiple subweapons, a nice roster of enemies, some 8 grand bosses and 6 mini-bosses, all this spread across 8 biomes sounds like great fun, right? Well, I'm afraid I have to disappoint you by saying that...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Madshot scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1524550/madshotReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.