ArcRunner

ArcRunner

Skip · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 22, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
4.3h
Value
$4.65/hr
Reviews
69% of 237 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Holding it back
Reviews69% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
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$4.65/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds12 of 195 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

About the game

Traverse 'The Arc' in this beautiful, Cyberpunk-styled action rogue-lite as you attempt to reset an evil rogue AI. Experiment with different weapons and augments as you fight hordes of machines programmed for your annihilation! Collect Nanites & power-up after every run either solo or with friends!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770, 2 GB, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 27 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 45 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Vellum ($9.99, scores 68) and Risk of Rain 2 ($8.24, scores 88) both outscore it.

More about ArcRunner

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

90% start to 2% 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

What players say

The game was genuinely fun and quite fun with friends. However, they abandoned their community and game. They went radio silent in 2023. Don't bother giving them anymore funds unless its 75% off or more.
BladeofHakumenNot recommendedafter 10hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Only buy it if you can get a really deep discount. I am stupid so I bought it full price thinking it would be a fun game that the devs actually work on. It never really got much traction though and eventually I just stopped playing. These types of games make me never want to trust indie devs unless the game has already gotten great reviews.
roalNot recommendedafter 8.8hAug 2025Read on Steam
While this game is fun, and I would give this a thumbs up, as of right now I believe that this is abandonware. It has been about a year since the last update, and there are incomplete mechanics in the game currently. It is playable, and can be fun with friends, but it needs work that likely won't ever come.
melonNot recommendedafter 24hMar 2025Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
ArcRunner scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1575830/arcrunner
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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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-6
Critics75
Players69
Metacritic critics · 237 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTrickjump Games Ltd
PublisherPQube
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29