Binary Domain
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.2h
- Value
- $1.63/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT220 (512MB) / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT (512MB), 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Set in futuristic Tokyo, take control of the robotic community before they control everything!
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
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in October 2019. 78 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Space™ 2 ($3.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Vanquish ($19.99, scores 58).
68 from critics against 86 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 49 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 520 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 492 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
9.2 hours to finish it, 20 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
64% start to 49% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
8 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
It's a really good shooter game with good mechanics. It's sad, that the Voice recognition doesn't work though.
Absolute gem of a game. It starts off a bit slow, but by the end it gets rather metal gear. Surprisingly good and very enjoyable characters too and the story is lotsa fun. Gameplay is solid all throughout, though it does show its age in the more scripted action scenes.
Know nothing anout this game but saw the Onsen cutscene dialogue scene an after watching it I know I have to play it and I did not regert it. The game is ABSOLUTE CINEMA. I enjoy the story very much even though I kind of predicted what will be going to happen, pacing of the story was good, interaction between the character was interesting. I like most of the shooting gameplay like how the enemy robots actually lose...
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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Binary Domain scores 63/100 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/203750/binary-domainThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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