Retro/Grade
Skip · Action · 2013
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$9.99Skip
On its price record
$7.12Fair
- Length
- 1.2h 36.2h to 100%
- Value
- $8.33/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 395 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.12 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 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
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Play a classic Shoot 'Em Up... in reverse!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA 8000 series, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 108 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Neon Drive ($9.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Polygoneer ($4.99, scores 35).
More about Retro/Grade
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The main story runs 1.2 hours. Doing everything runs 36, 30 times as long.
The drop-off
11% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Hah. It's been ages since I've played this first on the playstation. Apparently the levels on highest difficulty are somewhat in my memory, ranked 88 on first try xD
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Loveee this game and basically 100%ed it on PS3. The concept, feel and rush you get from runs is great, or at least for me! It's also great how this game was spawned.. "The idea for a backwards shooter came while creating a debugging mode for another shooter they were working on to pitch to developers."! I supported their game after this, Neverending Nightmares, in hopes that they would make another rhythm game in...
Insanely difficult, not terribly rewarding experience. This is one of the games that made me check the achievement completion rates for the community prior to purchase. If the most common achievement is only had by <10% of the game owners, it's too flipping hard.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Retro/Grade scores 46/100 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/222660/retro-gradeReviews 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.