Alpha Prime
Skip · Shooter · 2007
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.98/hr
- Reviews▼
- 55% of 1,527
- Critics
- 59 players 4 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 90% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.1h
- To 100%
- 6.6h 1.3x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 94 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 February 2014
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 8% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 94 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. Alien Rage - Unlimited ($19.99, scores 15) outscores it, and so does Trepang2 ($29.99, scores 55). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Alpha Prime
Of the 274 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 313 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 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
best old school hardcore shooter! robots have autoaim and if u fall from 2 m u losing half hp, if u shoot basketball in 1st location if it bounce on u, u lose 51 hp. Every fight feels like last, cause enemies also have autoaim and dont miss! no ammos, 1 or 2 hp potions through lvl and if u failed , no autosave start from begining! true hardcore !
2 more reviews
Alpha Prime, developed by Black Element and published by Bohemia Interactive, is a sci-fi first-person shooter that reflects a transitional moment in the genre-caught between classic corridor shooters and more experimental, system-driven designs. Released in the mid-2000s, it attempts to layer narrative intrigue and light mechanics like hacking and time manipulation onto a traditional FPS foundation. The result is a...
Some of the things this game does, it does well enough to put it on par with Red Faction, Half Life, etc.... BUT. Most of the time this game is a mess. It runs great, HOWEVER, there are a few spots where you have to stand on a moving platform. This is affected by Fast PC. I swear it took 20 minutes for the platforms to move 10 feet. I was dying laughing. Made a drink. Grabbed a snack. Halfway there. All in all this...
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About the game
Somewhere in deep space, at an apparently abandoned mining base on the asteriod Alpha Prime, something has gone terribly wrong. Miners were warned that the hubbardium they were mining was too dangerous, but the lure of unimaginable wealth was too strong.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible 128 MB graphics card, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Alpha Prime scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2590/alpha-primeReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.