Bionic Commando
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews▼
- 73% of 1,867
- Critics
- 69 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 60% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.8h
- To 100%
- 15.8h 2.3x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 81 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 September 2014
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 35% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
81 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 4 (2005) ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Mafia III: Definitive Edition ($29.99, scores 4).
More about Bionic Commando
This site sampled 471 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 382 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.8 hours. Doing everything runs 16, 2.3 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 4 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
so far the game is acutally not too bad to play, sure the grappling is gonna need some getting used to, but over all its not too bad, and yes i am well aware of the infamous twist about that arm, all i can say is WHY!?!?!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The first true sequel to the classic 1988 Nintendo Entertainment System original, Bionic Commando sees the return of the bionically-enhanced Nathan "R.A.D." Spencer. Time has not been kind to Spencer: Five years after his heroic defeat of the Imperials, he has been betrayed by the government he swore to serve, imprisoned for...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Bionic Commando scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/21670/bionic-commandoReviews 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.