Assault Android Cactus+

Assault Android Cactus+

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2015

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$3.9980% off

ReviewsS
94% of 2,020
Critics
79 players 15 higher
Genre rank
Top 2% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Reach

Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.

Time and effort

Finish
29% reach the ending
Achievements
29

Price and sales

Sales
61 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$3.99 December 2025
Sale every
56d last October 2026
Lowest now $19.98 at Humbleall-time low $3.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2 now
Cheaper than
10% of its genre
Better reviewed
98% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

65% start to 2% rarest
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

The value story

The value story

61 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Nex Machina ($19.99, scores 66) and Bot Vice ($9.99, scores 73), are both worse buys on this math.

More about Assault Android Cactus+

Critics scored it 79. Players sit 15 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

2 of the 325 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 230 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

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 93% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach350K+ 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
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 325 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

About the game

Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Assault Android Cactus+ scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/250110/assault-android-cactus
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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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+15
Critics79
Players94
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 2,020 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperWitch Beam
PublisherWitch Beam
GenreMultiplayer
Released2015
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29