Shatter
BANGER · Action · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.71/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 1,346
- Critics
- 84 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.8h
- To 100%
- 5.2h 1.9x the story
- Finish
- 12% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 47 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 December 2019
- Sale every
- 65d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 82% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
86% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 47 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Just Shapes & Beats ($19.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats The Bug Butcher ($7.99, scores 70).
The math says it holds its tier up to $5.22.
More about Shatter
84 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 193 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 19 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Shatter Review Important! Consider THIS 2010 version NOT the cheap "remake". Shatter is an impressive game! It's a great blend of classic arcade games like Breakout and Pong, with wonderful boss fights, clever ideas, and fantastic visuals. It offers plenty of challenging game modes, and the music is a real banger that keeps the energy high. Every close save and satisfying hit delivers a quick rush of adrenaline that...
1 more review, not recommended
I wanna like the game, I love brick breaker but holy what feels like rigged bossed artificial difficulty and needing just perfect everything to avoid continues. or the constant stuff doing it's best to shove you and you ball out, I thought I bought a brick breaker game but I ended up playing what felt more like Wii Tennis with a family member at times and then bad bossing and ok gameplay at best. Would give a meh...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Shatter is a retro-inspired brick-breaking game that merges familiar action with unique twists and a modern crafted production approach.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Shatter scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/20820/shatterReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.