Vector
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1004 MB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
Vector is an exciting, arcade-style game featuring you as the exceptional free runner who won’t be held down by the system. In this totalitarian world freedom and individually is nothing more than a distant dream. But the heart of a freerunner is strong, and so you break free.
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.49. That was June 2014. 12 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 20 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, I wanna be the Creator ($5.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Deadlight ($14.99, scores 45).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 357 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 312 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
4 hours to finish it, 20 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
85% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
Vector is a side-scrolling action game built around the speed, precision, and visual spectacle of parkour. Developed by Nekki and published by Nekki GmbH, it takes a relatively simple runner concept and gives it a distinctive personality through fluid character animation, an oppressive dystopian setting, and stages designed around maintaining momentum. Instead of concentrating on conventional fighting or complicated...
8/10 Good game. Thanks, Nekki, for releasing this game for PC. I played this game on my phone (the free version) 11 years ago and beat it nine times. The gameplay is okay (sometimes the controls don't respond quite as quickly), the soundtrack is good (well, there are only two songs in total across all levels, plus the main menu theme), and the graphics have a simple, nostalgic feel. I played this game on Linux using...
What a blast to replay a childhood favorite on PC. This Steam version is essentially the same as the original mobile game, but with one major improvement: you can unlock and buy every parkour move without the frustrating mobile grind. Speaking of parkour and its gameplay, the movement has a great sense of collision and momentum. You truly feel the impact when you hit a wall. Thanks to the realistic animations and...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Vector scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/248970/vectorReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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