Atomic Picnic
Skip · Roguelike · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $10.00/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 564 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
Third-person bullet heaven meets explosive co-op action! Swing, dash, and blast through monster swarms while combining upgrades and discovering rare evolutions to create game-breaking builds of destruction.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 OR AMD Radeon HD7850, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 18 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 71 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Risk of Rain 2 ($8.24, scores 88) and Vellum ($9.99, scores 68) both outscore it.
More about Atomic Picnic
Of the 429 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to July 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 31 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 11 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
games fun but is ruined with bugs to the point i cant unlock things because challenges don't progress also if you want to play with your friend good luck as whoever isn't host will deal with game breaking bugs like freezing, locked menus, horrible connection and pain pain pain. I really wanna like this game but its so short and nothing works properly. will prob come back if fixed and change my review
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
the game is fun but if you're in multiplayer and NOT the host, you will encounter every bug in the known universe. gunplay is fun synergies are fine enough but content is lacking. i would say this game is worth 8 dollars tops. any other price and its easily outcompeted edit: this is a game you can beat and still have enough time to refund the game and review it.
Was good, many updates later they broke/ruined everything fun. No idea what that was about. never seen a game get WORSE over time as much as this.
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
Atomic Picnic scores 32/100 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/1903560/atomic-picnicReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.