Arco
BANGER · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2024.
- Length
- 11.4h
- Value
- $0.70/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 60% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($11.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A Mesoamerican fantasy RPG that blends turn-based and real-time combat. Explore the world through three handcrafted stories forged in bloodshed, laced with magic, and united by revenge.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was August 2026. 20 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $7.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 79. With it, 95.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader ($14.99, scores 75) and 再刷一把2：金色传说 ($9.99, scores 0) both come in lower.
The math says it holds its tier up to $14.23, and you are being asked for $7.99.
86 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 11.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 387 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 169 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
75% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Just finished ARCO. It's really a wonderful game The good: - Characters are very interesting, with diverse personalities and backgrounds. - The story is simple but engaging. There are a lot of choices to be made that can change how the chapters are played. Lots of great interactions between them. - The pixel art is simply outstanding. - The music is also really good and it matches perfectly the América Latina...
Excellent twist on a tactics game - what if you took the rhythms of a dual-stick shooter & made them a turn based tactical thing. Short but not a wasted moment. Gets a lot of emotional mileage out of simple but beautiful sprite work and music. Every vocal track drop hit. Fast favorite from the last few years, absolutely worth a try!
Absolutely devastating. No notes. (also the actual game play is fantastic, both the branching story and team-building offer a ton of replay value, and even one play through is worth playing. Great game.)
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Arco scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2366970/arcoReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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