Cleared Hot

Cleared Hot

Fair · Action · 2025 · Early Access

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $17.99. A BANGER at $5.86, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Nov 2025 (lowest $11.99, Mar 2026).

Length
2.7h
Value
$6.66/hr
Reviews
96% positive
It needs 67% off ($5.86) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $15.02.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Last discount ended
36 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$6.66
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$17.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
96%
3,988 reviews, as of Sep 24
Released
2025

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

CLEARED HOT is a nostalgic helicopter shooter with satisfying physics and light tactical elements. Shoot, dodge, move your squad around the battlefield, and pick up almost anything with your rope and magnet.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value$6.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
Length2.7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds12 of 450 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was March 2026. It has been discounted 6 times in the 11 months tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago. No sale on record has reached $5.86, the price it would take to be a BANGER.

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Far Far West ($15.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats ODDCORE ($10.39, scores 63).

12 of the 450 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 1,054 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Cleared Hot scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1710820/cleared-hot
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Reviews 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 24, price as of Oct 1.

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Details

DeveloperNot Knowing Corporation
PublisherMicroProse Software
GenreAction
Released2025