Nuclear Throne
BANGER · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $11.99.
- Length
- 17.1h
- Value
- $0.70/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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
March 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $1.19. It has been discounted 13 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 15 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Enter the Gungeon ($14.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).
Of the 625 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 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 899 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 17.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 216, 13 times as much.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
85% start to <1% 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
Players
164 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 15:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
An actual masterpiece, have 100+ hrs on console and had to get the game when I bought a PC. Unmatched core gameplay loop, no frills, no BS or bugs, just really clean gameplay. This is the kind of game you play consistently until death IRL as a form of self measurement XDD I truly love it. The music and sounds, art and UI, everything just hits me deep in my gamer bones.
pros: very simple just shoot all the enemies artstyle is good. very good soundtrack runs are quick a very challenging time! cons: some secrets can be way too secret to find naturally (not as much as some games but still Bad Game Design) not much variety in items and perks perhaps it is... too hard? Hmph. (at the time of writing i have only got to the final boss once and died to it's first attack) no saving runs the...
FAVORITE ROGUELIKE right now, maybe of all time. so simple, yet such precision required.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Nuclear Throne scores 88/100 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/242680/nuclear-throneReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Oct 1.
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