Bad Bots
Skip · Shooter · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.3h 5.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.51/hr
- Reviews
- 55% of 260 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2457 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
As Sam McRae, last surviving member of the “Titan Hauler” crew, you must hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potential planet-destroying catastrophe.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB memory 800x600 16-bit Color, 51 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 33 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 351 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. UNSIGHTED ($19.99, scores 69) and Blazing Chrome ($16.99, scores 55) both outscore it.
The drop-off
29% start to 10% 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
What players say
Handles well and on easy the game isn't too challenging. I'm pretty bad at platformers and really just the compactor and especially the final boss gave me pause. Horizontal jumping is a bit off but beside that the controls are very in tune if you're using a controller. Worth checking out.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is literally the reason I acquired Steam. I had been avoiding it for some time, and at this point, I don't even remember why. These were still the days in which Steam wasn't essentially the absolutely required hub for games, though, so it might have been partially because of that. Whatever the case, I had worked with the developer of this game on a project previously, and I wanted to support him by getting...
The game is fun but extremely buggy. I first got the game and had to wait a few weeks for a patch to be released since there was a bug where the first boss spawns which makes you unable to fight the boss(he just stands in the corner and never comes to life) This issue was fixed and I have encountered another game freezing bug which makes me unable to complete the game. It is not a bad game when it works but please...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Bad Bots scores 3/100 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/235070/bad-botsReviews 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.