B.I.O.T.A.
Fair · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.1h 13.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.96/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 262 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.18 or less.
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
Intense 2D action-platformer set in a mining colony infected by an alien plague. In B.I.O.T.A. you can choose your hero, fight gruesome monsters, and customize your 8-bit retro experience with swappable 4-color palettes.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge) or higher, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 47 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 44 percent, about 5 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 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. On the same math Lone Fungus ($4.99, scores 65) and HUNTDOWN ($19.99, scores 78) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about B.I.O.T.A.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 206 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to July 2026.
The main story runs 5.1 hours. Doing everything runs 14, 2.7 times as long.
At 5.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
62% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 06:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
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2 more reviews
B.I.O.T.A., developed by small bros and published by Retrovibe, is a thrilling 2D action-platformer that successfully captures the spirit of classic retro games while incorporating modern design elements that keep the gameplay fresh and engaging. Set in a dystopian mining colony overrun by alien contamination, the game plunges players into a hazardous world filled with mutated creatures, corporate conspiracies, and...
It's a fun little game. Saving between screens adds a great element of casual play while being hard overall. Looks great on a CRT TV, with fun filters, if you're a weirdo like me. That being said, some sections like the submarine area are a bit of a slog, and I did get lost a few times. The story isn't extremely engaging, but if you like these kind of games, it's reasonably priced.
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Cite this score
B.I.O.T.A. scores 59/100 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/1640320/b-i-o-t-aReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.