Livelock
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.13/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 926
- Critics
- 73 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 52% Shooter
Holding it back: AI content, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.7h
- To 100%
- 16.6h 3.5x the story
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 69 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 42d last August 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 53% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
80% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 23:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
The value story
The value story
69 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 10 weeks ago.
Among the games that feel like it, Greedland ($12.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats From Space ($2.99, scores 23).
More about Livelock
Of the 368 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.7 hours; clearing it takes 17, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 68 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
What players say
6/10 Fine. The story is predictable and short 3-4 hours. You can choose between 3 characters each with different abilities and weapons. After finishing the story once you're not going to replay it again just to farm levels for characters and weapons, let's be real. At least the audio logs are easy to collect even if 6 of them need to be collected with each character. This game could have been much better if the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
For a 90% off game this is pretty cool but only having three characters limits the game a bit I think but other than that it's a steal
Irresponsive controls and boring gameplay. Only interesting if you play co-op, not for single.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Livelock is a co-operative top-down shooter where you play solo or with up to two allies to break the cycle of infinite war between machines. As one of the remaining Capital Intellects, your role is to unlock Eden and revive humanity.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 650 / AMD Radeon HD 7800 or equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Livelock scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/251230/livelockReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.