Retro City Rampage™ DX
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Pixel Shader 2.0 and Vertex Shader 2.0, 41 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
OPEN-WORLD carjacking goes back to the '80s in this 8-BIT nostalgic throwback. Run missions! Outrun the law! Rampage the city with weapons, power-ups and vehicles!
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was April 2014. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 70 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Westerado: Double Barreled ($14.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats 8BitMMO (free, scores 6).
3 of the 260 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 491 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
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
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Retro City Rampage™ DX scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204630/retro-city-rampage-dxThe 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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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