FORCED SHOWDOWN
Fair · Roguelike · 2016
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13h
- Value
- $1.54/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 680 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
About the game
Deckbuilding empowers this challenging bullet hell adventure! Each character is a unique experience: Choose a deck of unlockable cards to boost you in new ways every battle - "My whirlwind shoots fireballs!?". Battle hordes of brutal foes to become a superstar in C-SAR’s ever-changing game show.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GT 240 or equivalent, minimum 512 MB of VRAM, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
54 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 42 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Hand of Fate 2 ($29.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).
More about FORCED SHOWDOWN
Critics scored it 67. Players sit 17 points higher at 84 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
The drop-off
74% start to 2% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
great game! played pirated version several years ago, now decided to buy it as a token of gratitude and couldn't help myself not to start playing it from the beginning =)
2 more reviews
THUMBS-MID Given positive review by late TotalBiscuit (devs uploaded his entire video on their Steam page), I was tempted to try it for a long time. After 9 years of progress in roguelikes and roguelike ARPGs, this game feels substantially "less". Content is light and recycled, balance feels off for heroes, card system is too RNG based, and "Live" feature doesn't work. That said, this game feels good to play...
man was this game ahead of its time. if it was made today it'd be ported to mobile and riddled with microtransactions. thank god it was ahead of its time.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
FORCED SHOWDOWN scores 56/100 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/265000/forced-showdownReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.