STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $2.73/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 3.6 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was February 2026. 80 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 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 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Messenger ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD ($14.99, scores 43).
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 5.5-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 458 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 398 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
5.5 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
55% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 5.5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
9 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
If you're 14 & think ninjas are cool, you'll like this game. Competent, but doesn't stand out.
7/10. Good gameplay. Combat is fun. Final boss was just about one of the worst experiences I've ever had in a game.
The gameplay is amazing and I would recommend it except for two major points: #1 Does not work well with PS4 Dual Shock controller (using Steam controller Input settings), or even sometimes Xbox controller. Sometimes controller bugs out and stops working. Get it and try it out, if you have any issues within the 2 hour grace period refund it like I did. #2 CAPCOM retroactively added DRM to the game years after its...
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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STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® scores 46/100 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/235210/striderThe 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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