ROUNDS
BANGER · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $5.99.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Value
- $5.45/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 GHz or AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Rounds is a 1v1 rogue-lite shooter where each round gets more intense. The losing player of each round unlocks clever upgrades to create a better build to counter their opponent.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.39. That was December 2022. 46 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games closest to it, Stick Fight: The Game ($4.99, scores 86) and Nidhogg ($9.99, scores 76) both come in lower.
21 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 3,208 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 1.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 9, 7.8 times as much.
5 years after release it still had 555 people in it at once.
The drop-off
47% start to 3% 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
555 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Friendslop, but it's pretty fun. Quick and easy to pick up, lots of randomness and varied rounds, I have alot of fun torturing friends with my atrocious builds.
Outstanding game, so simple but so good. Great game for one on one time with friends.
It's a good game, but the multiplayer is dead. You won't find anyone online, even if you wait for an hour. Don't buy the game unless you have someone to play with. Otherwise, the game is still great. One more thing: always choose the ability ; it's the best in the game. It's so good it ruins friendships.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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ROUNDS scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1557740/roundsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 23.
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