Divekick

Divekick

Skip · Action · 2013

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 48, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
0.7h
Value
$7.13/hr
Reviews
84% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
0.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
46.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$7.13
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$4.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
84%
1,832 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
73
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2013

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 / DirectX 11 compliant video card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Divekick is the world’s first two-button fighting game. It distills the essence of the fighting game genre into just two buttons with no d-pad directional movement. Includes two extra playable characters: Fencer from Nidhogg and Johnny Gat from Saints Row!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Value$7.13/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length0.7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 101 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in November 2015. 12 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 13 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Lethal League ($13.99, scores 75) and Nidhogg 2 ($14.99, scores 52) both outscore it.

Critics scored it 73. Players sit 11 points higher at 84 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 421 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 0.7 hours; clearing it takes 46, which is 66 times the campaign.

At 0.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

28% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 19:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

No training. No versus mode against one character. Nonexistent online. Crazy loading times for a 2D flash game. I should be paid to play this. PATHETIC. Brawlhallas better than this $5 garbage.
Chairman DominoNot recommendedafter 6.8hSep 2025Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Divekick scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/244730/divekick
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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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+11
Critics
73
Players
84
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,832 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIron Galaxy Studios
PublisherIron Galaxy Studios
GenreAction
Released2013
Achievements14