Livelock
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.7h
- Value
- $2.13/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 650 / AMD Radeon HD 7800 or equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was November 2024. 69 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 39 percent on value. On the same math Greedland ($5.19, scores 60) and Shadowgrounds ($6.99, scores 57) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
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.
The drop-off
80% start to 2% 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
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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
☆_Review in english & deutsch!_☆ Livelock is a fantastic cooperative top-down shooter! Livelock impresses in many areas; I'd like to start with the cooperative mode. Playing with two friends is great fun. You can quickly and easily invite friends in the lobby. The maximum group size is three players. The story is engaging and easy to follow. You can replay any chapter at various difficulty levels. There are three...
Irresponsive controls and boring gameplay. Only interesting if you play co-op, not for single.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Livelock scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/251230/livelockThe 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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