Metal Bringer

Metal Bringer

Fair · Roguelike · 2025

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
8h
Value
$2.50/hr
Reviews
88% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
30% ($13.99)
Last discount ended
9 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
8h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
16.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.50
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
88%
1,181 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2025

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX960(4G). Windows only.

In this roguelike action-adventure, control humanoid "Labor" and giant "Arms" to uncover the mysteries of the world. Create fully-customizable robots, strengthen them, and take down hordes of enemies!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.50/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length8 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds8 of 434 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $13.99, set in July 2025. 12 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Samurai Bringer ($9.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate ($7.49, scores 59).

8 of the 434 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 17, 2.1 times as much.

The drop-off

81% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

9 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 22:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Really fun game overall. Feels a bit like this would've been a hit in the PS2 Era almost. It's very arcadey and easy to pickup. Building a Mech is fun due to the many parts you can discover, and the first few runs are also quite the challenge because you simply have a subpar Mech and you constantly scavenge for used parts to keep it from falling apart. Controls are snappy, VFX look super cool and overall the...
MeleemaruRecommendedafter 16hAug 2026Read on Steam
A good Hack and Slash Roguelite any player can enjoy, though its recommended for a PC that has a 16 GB ram rather than the 8 GB it requires at a minimum, as it crashes the game when you get to the final area.
roderickviola3Recommendedafter 32hAug 2026Read on Steam
Dope top-down mecha game. Played with both controller & Keyboard and Mouse. You're able to change which way the camera is facing. Besides that, the pixelated graphics are a nice touch, and the gameplay itself is quick and smooth. Reminds me a lot of the twin stick shooter genre, so if you're a fan of that I would wholeheartedly recommend. *Quick note: To rebind the Mouse and Keyboard bindings, you have to change...
definitely dissonantRecommendedafter 6.3hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Metal Bringer scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2334170/metal-bringer
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperALPHAWING Inc.
PublisherPLAYISM
GenreRoguelike
Released2025
Achievements41