Jets'n'Guns Gold
Worth it · Shooter · 2014
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99. Typically $3.19 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.92/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 1,531
- Genre rank
- Top 14% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.7h
- To 100%
- 21.5h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 22
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.74 November 2017
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 62% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 72% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
28% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 72 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kero Blaster ($9.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Jets'n'Guns 2 ($15.99, scores 59).
More about Jets'n'Guns Gold
1 of the 331 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 254 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
8.7 hours to finish it, 22 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
Don't let its age fool you-Jets'n'Guns Gold has aged remarkably well. The visuals still hold up, the soundtrack is excellent, and the gameplay is just as addictive as ever. Blasting through waves of enemies while upgrading your ship never gets old. The only downside is the Steam achievement list. Earning 100% requires a fair amount of grinding and dedication. That said, if you're an achievement hunter or simply...
1 more review
A complete nostalgia pick for me. I played original Jets 'n' Guns waaay back in the day on PC and remember enjoying it, even if it was super difficult. Seriously, playing it right now I don't even understand how did I managed to beat it back then. So Jets 'n' Guns is a bullethell shmup set in a ridiculous space setting with niche references and absurd humour. The player is a retired war hero that became a freelance...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Jets'n'Guns is a heavy piece of ground shaking rock blasting action with graphics and special effects that will blow you eyes out! Enjoy yourself in almost-insane action adventure of saving the universe from the deadly threat of more than 270 unique monsters in the campaign of 43 levels.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL compatible, 113 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Jets'n'Guns Gold scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/262260/jets-n-guns-goldReviews 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.