Thunder Ray
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $7.49.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $4.16/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 316 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Thunder Ray is Arcade-Boxing, Retro-like gameplay with blood and violence. Defeat all the best fighters in the galaxy to become the GOAT of the universe.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Geforce 9600 GT or AMD HD 3870 512MB or higher, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 19 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $7.49 at 50 percent off still sits 234 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 67 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome ($9.99, scores 35) and Distant Space 2 ($0.49, scores 59) both outscore it.
More about Thunder Ray
Of the 269 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 122 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
96% 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
What players say
Fun game! Old school Tyson vibes with fantastic sprite work. Hand draw animation is amazing!
1 more review, not recommended
I sincerely hope this reaches the team behind Thunder Ray. I'm writing this as someone who has wanted a new entry in the Punch Out series since I was a kid. There's clearly a lot of ambition here, and I truly believe the game has MASSIVE potential. However, in its current state, it falls far short of what it could be, and that's incredibly frustrating to experience as a player. I came in excited, but ultimately, I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Thunder Ray scores 25/100 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/1944910/thunder-rayReviews 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.