Droid Assault
Fair · Shooter · 2013
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.6h 16.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 370 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Play Droid Assault and experience running blaster battles with hordes of rampaging killer robots! Discover a unique tactical arcade shooter, with the fun addictive gameplay of 8-bit classics. You'll need your wits and the help of your acquired droid squad to stay alive in this fast-paced retro actionfest.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 1.5 capable graphics card, 430 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
79 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 40 percent on value. On the same math Revenge of the Titans ($14.99, scores 52) and 64.0 ($2.99, scores 80) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Droid Assault
Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 124 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
3.6 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
72% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
IMO, the best of these Puppy Games retro style games. Clearly inspired by the 1985 classic Commodore 64 game Paradroid. Bit less about arcade twitch reflexes and more about tactics and squad management than the other Puppy games, just a bit. You roam around with your bot, destroying other bots or taking them over with your transfer beam. Cleaning the building floor by floor. Unlike in Paradroid, you get to keep the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Puppy games never disappoint in not disappointing us . Woof Woof. I could have finished the game a lot earlier but I fell for the cuteness of these miniature futuristic droids that were spamming my screen with beams and bullets. So it took me but time. Overall, it felt like a joyous roller coaster ride that is neither too fast nor too high, but just a ride that will bring you back to the starting point in a wham. In...
I tried to like this game, I gave it so many chances (because I just love other Puppy-games), but I don't see anything fun here. In a few words, Droid Assault is a game about dodging bullets. Of course, there are other gameplay elements which may seem interesting at a glance, but believe me, they are not relevant to success in the game. The developers tried to make it look like there is a lot of strategic thinking...
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Cite this score
Droid Assault scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/219200/droid-assaultReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.