Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate
Fair · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3h 14.5h to 100%
- Value
- $8.33/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 220 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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
"Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate" is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up with the heart of a fighting game, showcasing nostalgic pixel art and the latest cross-platform online multiplayer. Experience the biggest and most expansive entry in the "Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds" series to date!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB or AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB, or Intel HD 5000, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
11 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics ($15.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection ($39.99, scores 49).
More about Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate
Of the 203 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026.
3 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.8 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
93% start to 2% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 18:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
🏙️ I'm so excited for the re-release! It's a wonderful title and a great game in the genre. In case you were wondering, it has differences from the original. Besides some visual changes, there are many small QoL improvements. It's less grindy, there are new enemy types / behaviors, new mechanics (skills equip), a different balance (Nightmare is harder), but the coolest thing is the ability to play as any enemy...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
its really one of the best ever made. the controls are so good and the music is funky. multiplayer is a blast but you will need a homie
буквально копия классической версии с повышенном ценником. единственный плюс - ремикс старых треков. в остальном проще купить ориг на распродаже за те же 100-200 рублей со всеми длс и даже сэкономить (я купил ультимейт просто потому что я хомячок)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate scores 53/100 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/2067350/phantom-breaker-battle-grounds-ultimateReviews 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.