Intake
Fair · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $4.76/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 396 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.65 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.99 (60% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Intake is the new retro-futuristic drugstep arcade shooter from Cipher Prime. In this polychromatic love child of Dr. Mario and Ikaruga, you battle a never-ending barrage of pills, pushing your skill and reflexes to the limit to avoid a lethal dosage.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia 8600M or better, 451 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 20 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 23 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Super Hexagon ($0.74, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien ($14.99, scores 54).
More about Intake
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
46% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Intake scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/237760/intakeReviews 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.