TOP DOG
Fair · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 268 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 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
Dogfight your way through short, intense and randomized runs. Hard but easy to pickup, with daily leaderboards and minimum hardware requirements
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 31 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 35 percent on value. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sky Rogue ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Fictorum ($9.99, scores 47).
More about TOP DOG
This site sampled 263 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to 17% 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
Very simple and to the point, quickly scales in difficulty the more you play it, lots of fun, reminded me of House of the Dying Sun.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Hella fun but does have some minor issues. It's fast, it's fun, and it reminds me a lot of Ace Combat. The game is basically just one long fight to see how long you can last like the old retro-arcade games. And the game gives you plenty of targets that go up in lethality as you play from weak Viper jets that can go down in one missile to aggressive space ships with missiles to spare. This isn't a game you play to...
while i personally love the gameplay, the lack of an endless mode and the dev spewing some bs about the gameplay loop is infuriating. The game already generates new seeds every day, why can't it generate levels indefinitely for individual runs? Not to mention the "difficulties", which only add more enemies and make runs a level or two longer. The most disappointing thing is that, according to another reviewer, there...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
TOP DOG scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1979410/top-dogReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.