Syder Arcade
Fair · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.2h 5.9h to 100%
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 696 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 88 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 60 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Jets'n'Guns Gold ($7.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Really Big Sky ($1.24, scores 43).
More about Syder Arcade
Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 156 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.2 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 2.7 times as long.
The drop-off
63% start to 3% 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
What players say
My goodness. For the longest time I was worried I'd never make 100% of the achievements. But just like with every good arcade game it just takes a while to get the hang of it. Now that I'm out of frustration mode, I feel fully accomplished. Great feeling! Added this to my "suitable for the kids" list.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Ancient game by now but still worth a buy even if it was released in 2013. It is a solid good shooter game that can be picked up any time and played as-is. It delivers frantic action where your skill and ability to manage crowds is put to test and in my opinion this has not aged a day. Few know about this game but it is worth checking out on sales.
I would give this a neutral rating if I could. It's pretty good while it lasts, but it doesn't last long. The campaign contains about an hour's worth of content. There's the survival mode, but it's only good for short bursts. Once you've beaten the campaign on the highest difficulty, I can't imagine you'd want to play it much more unless you're a die hard shoot em up fan that just has to get to the top of the...
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Cite this score
Syder Arcade scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252310/syder-arcadeReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.