Nuclear Blaze
Worth it · Action · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.07.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 70% ($2.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 75% ($2.49)
- Last discount ended
- 16 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Any decent GPU, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
A unique 2D firefighting platformer from the creator of Dead Cells, featuring devastating backdrafts, exploding walls, and expected cat rescues. Battle your way through a mysterious government facility, striving to keep the blaze under control.
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
January 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 48 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago. Past sales have already crossed the $5.07 BANGER line 26 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Islets ($19.99, scores 68) and Narita Boy ($2.49, scores 52) both come in lower.
74 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
1 of the 329 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 224 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.8 hours; clearing it takes 5, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
93% start to 14% 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
Cite this score
Nuclear Blaze scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1662480/nuclear-blazeReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 2.
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