SATAZIUS
Fair · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.5h 3.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.99/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 326 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
The year is 2051. Location: SATAZIUS, a long-abandoned planet. The cruiser Agano was on patrol when it was attacked and stricken by a confederacy of space pirates that had established a base on SATAZIUS. The pirates attacked the Agano intending to steal the assault ship ‘Trafalgar’ that was stowed aboard the Agano, but the Trafalgar made...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, NDIVIA Geforce series, AMD(ATI) Radeon series, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
Across all 115 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 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 36 percent on value. It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Jets'n'Guns Gold ($7.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Really Big Sky ($1.24, scores 43).
More about SATAZIUS
Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 101 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.5 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
23% 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
OVERVIEW: In comparison to vertical shmups I have far less experience with horizontal ones, but Satazius triggered fond memories from the Darius 2 and Aeroblasters sessions on the Sega Megadrive, and I know.... maybe Gradius too Pros -» Gameplay: upgrade different types of weapons and pick ship speed bonus if you wish -» Soundtrack and sound effects: techno beat that suits the space environment -» Graphics: decent...
1 more review
There are games you will never want to play again and then there are classics like Satazius that just waits at the corner of your drive from year to year waiting for the moment when you want to play it again. It is just that good. A game like it was made by elder gods in a time when skill, fun and awesomeness in general was on the menu all the time before life became so hectic you didn't have time and focus enough...
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Cite this score
SATAZIUS scores 54/100 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/203990/sataziusReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.