Slave Zero X
Skip · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 29, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 6.8h
- Value
- $3.68/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 492 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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Slave Zero X is a stylish 2.5D character action game set in the biopunk world of Slave Zero (1999). Run & Slash your way through a dystopian future in this character action game which will resonate with fans of Devil May Cry, Strider, and Guilty Gear.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2 GB) / AMD R7 260X (2 GB), 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 19 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE ($29.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z ($29.99, scores 8).
More about Slave Zero X
This site sampled 405 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 229 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 11 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
86% start to <1% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 10:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A rare handmade-but-not-makeshift game that is perfect in almost every way , but has one (1) huge glaring flaw. Depending on how deeply committed you grow, said flaw may prove completely irrelevant or debilitating. Slave Zero X is the epitome of 80s anime: fast, angry, warlike, anti-American and gay. (всё вышеперечисленное признано экстремизмом на территории Российской Федерации) The character models and especially...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game RULES. The package on offer is very solid & if you're a fan of beat'em ups and anime fighters this should be right up your alley. The artstyle is amazing, the biopunk aesthetic is on full display & the artwork is highly detailed and unique, very striking presentation. The spritework is immaculate, reminiscent of ArcSys fighters (specifically BlazBlue), and the mix between 2D sprites & 3D backgrounds lends...
What an absolute waste of an interesting world and character design. Absolute garbage controls with even worse combat. HF getting chain grabbed and stunned locked with absolutely no way out and getting to do everything all over again in the later zones.
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Cite this score
Slave Zero X scores 29/100 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/1903910/slave-zero-xReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.