Zeno Clash

Zeno Clash

Worth it · Shooter · 2009

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

Worth it at $2.99.

Cost per hourS
$0.79/hr
Reviews▼
87% of 3,241
Critics
77 players 10 higher
Genre rank
Top 9% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.

Score at full price

Fair$9.99

Score today

−70%Worth it
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
3.8h
To 100%
9.3h 2.4x the story
Finish
24% reach the ending
Achievements
22

Price and sales

Sales
79 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.99 January 2013
Sale every
49d last November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.74 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
7 now
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
72% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

46% start to 24% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

January 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 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.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 9 percent. It is better reviewed than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Paint the Town Red ($19.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Zeno Clash 2 ($4.49, scores 56).

More about Zeno Clash

Critics scored it 77. Players sit 10 points higher at 87 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 370 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 355 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 3.8 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 2.4 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.79/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $2.63/hr
Engagement24% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 370 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

what a weird little romp. probably best to play on controller, i played on kb+m and the controls were agonizing at times, especially with the locking on.
9-VoltRecommendedafter 3.2hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
This game is just plain weird, I've got to say. But you know what? It's kind of fun, in its own bizarre way.
s o y o n iRecommendedafter 1.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This is a must play I'm serious the graphics are crazy the kicks are brutal cheers to father-mother birdman and the pigs
NickelZachRecommendedafter 4.5hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world. The game is played from a first person perspective and the combat is generally up close and brutal. Experience a deep storyline set in a fantastic world.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB, Shader model 2.0, ATI 9600, NVidia 6600 or better, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Zeno Clash scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22200/zeno-clash
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Reviews 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.

Critics vs players+10
Critics77
Players87
Metacritic critics · 3,241 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperACE Team
PublisherACE Team
GenreShooter
Released2009
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements22