John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
Skip · Action · 2026
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 60% over the last 30 days against 74% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 580 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, 58 GB of storage. Windows only.
Pick a character and team up with three friends ‘cause it’s time to save the world. Experience intense FPS action as you obliterate hordes of terrifying monsters! You may not be on the best team of mercenaries, but you are… a Toxic Commando!
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. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $27.99. 3 discounts in the 10 months on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 11 weeks.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 ($59.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Expeditions: A MudRunner Game ($39.99, scores 1).
Players rate it 74 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 60 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 33 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 515 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 912 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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John Carpenter's Toxic Commando scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2157830/john-carpenter-s-toxic-commandoThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 23.
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