Receiver
Fair · Roguelike · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $1.56/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Passmark G3D 250+, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Receiver was created for the 7-day FPS challenge to explore gun handling mechanics, randomized levels, and unordered storytelling. Armed only with a handgun and an audio cassette player, you must uncover the secrets of the Mindkill in a building complex infested with automated turrets and hovering shock drones.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in April 2020. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 58 in the 13 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 43 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Receiver 2 ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition ($9.99, scores 21).
2 of the 427 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, 73 percent of the 1,016 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Receiver Is a revolutionary take on the FPS genre, featuring much more detailed firearm manipulation then any other title i've ever heard of with physics based enemies that are far from the standard NPC who pops out from cover to take some potshots at you. ___ Pros: The gunplay is immaculate, turning the operation of a firearm into an entire complex process rather than the fact of life that it usually is in the FPS...
Learning the muscle memory of reloading each gun is super satisfying. Some of the randomization can be frustrating, but when I realized that I could reset by just holding "L" I had a much easier time learning what changed between runs and what stayed the same. The suspense and attention to detail in this game make it worth giving a shot, even if you just boot it up to go to the firing range and mess around with the...
This feels more like a demo than a game especially after playing receiver 2, I would recommend just buying the second game as it is much better than this one in every single way.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Receiver scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/234190/receiverThe 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 Sep 7, price as of Sep 24.
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