Bleed

Bleed

BANGER · Shooter · 2013

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

A BANGER at $4.99. Typically $2.49 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.

Cost per hour▼
$3.33/hr
ReviewsS
93% of 1,913
Genre rank
Top 3% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.

Time and effort

Main story
1.5h
To 100%
12.1h 8.1x the story
Achievements
32

Price and sales

Sales
76 on record
Typical cut
66% off
Steam low
$0.99 December 2015
Sale every
49d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.95 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
72% of its genre
Better reviewed
90% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

42% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 76 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games closest to it, Blazing Chrome ($4.24, scores 75) and Super House of Dead Ninjas ($19.99, scores 82) both come in lower.

On this data it would still be a BANGER at $7.22.

More about Bleed

None of the 228 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 516 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 1.5 hours; clearing it takes 12, which is 8.1 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Replayability~9h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 1.5h main story
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 228 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Bleed is a fast-paced action platformer developed and published by Ian Campbell that embraces the spirit of classic arcade shooters while introducing modern mechanics that make every encounter feel dynamic and exhilarating. The game follows Wryn, an ambitious young heroine who dreams of becoming the greatest hero in the world. To achieve that goal, she sets out to defeat a roster of legendary champions, creating a...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 15hJun 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
It might take you a bit to get comfortable playing Bleed. While the twin-stick, twin-trigger controls are simple, they are also fairly unintuitive. The bullet time trigger feels like the odd duck in the quartet, especially with the shooting stick pulling you away from it; I felt like I had to shift my entire focus when I wanted to use it, so I really underutilized it. On top of that, the aiming falls into a no-man's...
Slave Of WantRecommendedafter 3.1hFeb 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Wryn is a girl with a big arsenal and big dreams -- she wants to be the ultimate videogame hero! Help her take down the Greatest Heroes of All Time in an action-packed bid to claim the title for herself and show the world what a true hero looks like!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB video card (XNA 4.0 compatible, Shader Model 2.0 or higher), 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Bleed scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/239800/bleed
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Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperIan Campbell
PublisherIan Campbell
GenreShooter
Released2013
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements32