ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
Fair · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.6h
- Value
- $3.41/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, 4 GB or AMD Radeon RX 480, 4 GB, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
A new action game based on the concept of the ARMORED CORE series that uses the knowledge gained from FromSoftware's recent action game development.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $29.99. 10 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BATTLETECH ($39.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats War Robots (free, scores 6).
13 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 3,497 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
17.6 hours to finish it, 51 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
It came out 3 years ago and 1.0K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
91% start to 6% 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
Players
1,011 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Can't believe I got bodied by Balteus and refunded this game when it came out lol. Anyways I'm trans now and the estrogen made me a better mech pilot. This game ♥♥♥ rules and you should play it! :3
Perfectly packaged game. On the shorter end but thats not a bad thing. I am not much into mech games but played this 3 times in a row to get the secret ending. Amazing visuals, cool story and interesting bosses. Even as a non mech fan this game was amazing and feels a lot closer to a souls like.
My stupid broad wife took my kids in the divorce But I still have my beloved Pile Bunker
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1888160/armored-core-vi-fires-of-rubiconThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 23.
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