Apocalyptic Vibes
Skip · Shooter · 2023
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 3.6h 10h to 100%
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 337 positive
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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.
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About the game
A vintage immersive first-person shooter on GZDoom. With an atmosphere of a cold and melancholic postapocalypse, elements of dieselpunk, mix of a retro-style and realism and romantic shoegaze as a soundtrack.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 8, Radeon HD2000, Intel HD 4000, or greater, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
27 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 33 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl ($59.99, scores 50) beats it on value, while it beats S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 14).
More about Apocalyptic Vibes
6 of the 305 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 188 have a larger share.
The main story runs 3.6 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 2.8 times as long.
What players say
A somewhat short but very atmospheric tactical shooter. The game sets you up pretty early to recognize when you're going to be in a gunfight, and will have you constantly checking corners the moment you move through rooms. The only thing I didn't like was that there wasn't more game. I thought the story was quite interesting, and it felt like it just sort of... ended. Like something barely in the middle of a longer...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Its pretty short, but overall I enjoyed the time I spent in it. Worth the price I paid on it. Only minor complaint I have is outside of buildings the enemies can be tough to see, and the rifle didn't help much.
Good gameplay and great atmosphere, i love the photo textures and color choices. i like the slower gameplay more focused on landing headshots to conserve ammo then balls to the wall action of normal doom inspired game. the game has some soft locking issues and glitches so save often if you are playing on normal mode. this game is very short, round three hours and normally that's fine but man not for that price tag...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Apocalyptic Vibes scores 27/100 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/1840610/apocalyptic-vibesReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.