Alien Breed: Impact
Skip · Shooter · 2010
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.7h
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA 6800+ or ATI Radeon X700+ Video Card, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in June 2016. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 108 in the 14 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Among the games that feel like it, Halo: Spartan Strike ($2.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Alien Breed 2: Assault ($0.99, scores 30).
Critics scored it 64. Players sit 10 points higher at 74 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
2 of the 395 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 235 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
61% start to 4% 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
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Alien Breed: Impact scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22610/alien-breed-impactThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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