McDROID

McDROID

Skip · Shooter · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 33, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
7.4h
Value
$1.35/hr
Reviews
74% of 217 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Holding it back
Value$1.35/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 73% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 66 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Farm, Build, Defend, in the Galaxy's only Arcade-Tower-Defense.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nvidia 660 Ti, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 69 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 77 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is less well reviewed than 64 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Orcs Must Die! 2 ($14.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Outpost: Infinity Siege ($24.99, scores 11).

The drop-off

57% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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
1 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 14:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

McDROID is an eccentric mixture of tower defense, third-person shooting, farming, base construction, and real-time strategy that manages to establish an identity quite different from conventional games in any of those genres. Developed and published by Elefantopia, it places players in control of a small robotic hero attempting to restore and defend a damaged planet. Instead of watching battles from above and simply...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 15h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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メᵃʳᶜᵃᵈᵉ™ 💗Recommendedafter 2.1hJun 2023Read on Steam
Despite some comedic relief via homorus dialog, the game is unfortunately so difficult while solo due to the amount of micromangement required it into a panicked stuggle to survive than a fun experience
PokekingNot recommendedafter 2.5h9 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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McDROID scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252970/mcdroid
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Reviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperElefantopia
PublisherElefantopia
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24