Raw Metal
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.9h
- Value
- $4.08/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 491 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.11 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $14.99 (25% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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
Infiltrate the depths of an exoplanet mining facility to scavenge for gear and challenge a corrupt megacorporation. Utilize gadgets and equipment in high-stakes stealth, and hone your fighting skills in breakneck combat in this stylish stealth-action dungeon crawler.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2GB or equivalent, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
11 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE ($29.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Aragami 2 ($34.99, scores 28).
More about Raw Metal
Of the 350 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 113 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
59% 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
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 17:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Solid little game. I am playing after the most recent changes so I can't speak to how it played before but overall it's pretty fun. The game is rough around the edges in some places that it seems like most people are already aware of. The camera could use some work and boss AI can be a bit odd in some places but overall the quality of the of everything else made up for it personally. I hope that this team continues...
2 more reviews
Raw Metal Insidious Interloper Investigates Mysterious Mine, Whacking Woefully Waged Workers -Overview: Raw Metal is an extraction beat-em-up with heavy emphasis on stealth. The player takes control of the Scavenger, a mysterious character dead set on getting to the bottom of a heavily guarded mine, Katabase 6. You must go floor by floor, sneaking, fighting, and stealing your way to the bottom of Katabase 6 in...
This game is sick! I think it's my favourite video game of all time! It should be available on both the App store and Nintendo Switch!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Raw Metal scores 52/100 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/2279600/raw-metalReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.