Bionic Commando: Rearmed
Skip · Action · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.1h 15.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.96/hr
- Reviews
- 60% of 1,168 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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How to read this
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About the game
Classic side-scrolling gameplay is reporting back for duty with Bionic Commando Rearmed, a remake of the classic NES game, out now on PC.20 years after the 8-bit classic was released, Bionic Commando Rearmed recreates the world of the original with a complete "2.5D" visual revamp.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB DirectX 9c compatible card / nVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT / or ATI equivalent, 645 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 79 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. TowerFall Ascension ($2.99, scores 83) and SONIC SUPERSTARS ($39.99, scores 13) both outscore it.
More about Bionic Commando: Rearmed
Critics scored it 86, but players land 26 points lower at 60 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
4 of the 265 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 311 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
5.1 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
What players say
game will not launch! why would capcom and steam sell a game that doesnt work? I replaced the exe. file then downloaded NVIDIA PhysX and ran in admin. mode. It still wont run!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Bionic Commando: Rearmed scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/21680/bionic-commando-rearmedReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.