Noitu Love 2: Devolution

Noitu Love 2: Devolution

Worth it · Action · 2012

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $4.99.

Length
1.5h 4.4h to 100%
Value
$3.33/hr
Reviews
92% of 640 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2457 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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$3.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 99 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A century after the legendary boy Noitu Love saved the world from the evil Darns, they rise again, but in a chaos of time-bending mayhem!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 502 MB of memory, Any system capable of software rendering. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 26 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 351 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gravity Circuit ($5.94, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Iconoclasts ($19.99, scores 59).

More about Noitu Love 2: Devolution

Critics scored it 80. Players sit 12 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 202 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 1.5 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 2.9 times as long.

What players say

It's been a long time since i played it, but outside of its visual crust, and the mouse/keyboard controls, it was a really cool action game i'd play again.
GeckoRecommendedafter 1.5hJul 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
To this day, the first stage of Noitu Love 2 is the perfect summary about what I personally like about action games. There are too many explosions (which means 'just the right amount') and it's just so much fun to blast through enemies. The controls may take some getting used to, since you rarely get platformers with mouse aiming and you *could* say that it maybe it has too many special moves, since really you can...
MOKKARecommendedafter 3.1hJul 2024Read on Steam
This game is quite short but it feels like a great, arcadey experience similar to games like Gunstar Heroes and Alien Soldier, featuring a good amount of bosses.
IkaguraRecommendedafter 4.9hMar 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Noitu Love 2: Devolution scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/207530/noitu-love-2-devolution
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+12
Critics80
Players92
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 640 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperJoakim Sandberg
PublisherJoakim Sandberg
GenreAction
Released2012
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate