DRACOMATON

DRACOMATON

Fair · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.3h
Value
$2.30/hr
Reviews
90% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Typical seasonal cut
50% ($2.49)
Deepest seasonal cut
67% ($1.64)

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.3h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
9.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.30
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$2.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
1,160 reviews, as of Sep 25
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 620, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Dracomaton is a top-down roguelike bullet hell about Eclipse, a small robot who awakens in an abandoned factory filled with corrupted training bots and the secrets of cosmic dragons. Fight your way to the top of the tower by transforming your robot body, changing your entire arsenal on the fly!
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

Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.30/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead That is today's sale price. Normally $3.84/hr
Length1.3 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 52 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

November 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 27 in the 3 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 40 percent off still sits 202 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nuclear Throne ($11.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Over 9000 Zombies! ($2.99, scores 63).

HowLongToBeat players log 1.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 9, 7.1 times as much.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

81% start to 14% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 13:51 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
DRACOMATON scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2457890/dracomaton
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Reviews 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 25, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperGun Jumpers
PublisherGun Jumpers
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Achievements64