Gearbits
Worth it · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $8.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2023.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $1.63/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 463 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.92 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Fast-paced mecha themed third person shooter.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1.6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 16 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 10 percent, about 11 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $5.92, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games closest to it, Mecha Knights: Nightmare ($7.19, scores 78) and Vanquish ($19.99, scores 58) both come in lower.
More about Gearbits
Of the 315 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026.
At 5.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
55% start to 6% rarestNo 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 15, 15:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Another instance of "What you see on the store page is what you get." It has a few rough points and I encountered the occasional very minor spawn or scripting hiccup, things like that. But all in all a very heartfelt little game.
2 more reviews
Gearbits is a game i am still actively playing but love dearly. It is a love letter to armored core, gundam, and the mecha genre as a whole, with retro psx/lowpoly models, charming sprites, and a decent story. The game performs well on virtually any machine, and is incredibly fun. Its challenging, but replaying failed missions with new builds is the key to success.
If you want a quick, cheap mecha game to play around with, this fits the bill. It's 20 missions of story that took me about 5 hours plus a replayable wave survival mode. There is a decent variety of weapons* and maybe a dozen mechs to try out. There are two main enemies; bug aliens and other mechs. The bug aliens come in massive swarms plus some supporting ranged bugs. The enemy mechs are basically just an opposing...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Gearbits scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2506580/gearbitsReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.