Assault Android Cactus+
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. 60 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Waves (free, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Nex Machina ($19.99, scores 66).
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 September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 229 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.
The drop-off
65% start to 29% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Assault Android Cactus+ scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/250110/assault-android-cactusThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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