Satellite Reign

Satellite Reign

Skip · Action · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 29, under the fair line, at $29.99. Price from Oct 21.

Cost per hour▼
$1.42/hr
Reviews▼
71% of 5,385
Critics
75 players 4 lower
Genre rank
Top 51% Action

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
21.1h
To 100%
40.6h 1.9x the story
Finish
2% reach the ending
Achievements
40

Price and sales

Sales
36 on record
Typical cut
85% off
Steam low
$2.99 November 2017
Sale every
51d last June 2026
All-time low $2.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
4 now
Cheaper than
2% of its genre
Better reviewed
36% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

62% start to 2% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

November 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 36 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 7 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Transistor ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Raw Data ($39.99, scores 27).

More about Satellite Reign

Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 21.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 440 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 413 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

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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

Raising the score
Engagement2% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.42/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds2 of 440 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

What players say

Fun reboot of Syndicate. Worth watching a walkthru or tips video, not everything is explained well in the in-game tutorial.
| nzDOGRecommendedafter 17hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Great game, for me like Commandos having a child with Total Annihilation. A lot of freedom on what and how to do. A lot of lore if you like hacking data caches and reading messages/emails. Mechanics are good. Not Desperados level, so the game feels a bit easier and not made to be difficult just for the sake of it. The lack of a pause button and lack of setting characters to auto fire really forces you to manage your...
TIMRecommendedafter 85h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Usually I'm writing only negative reviews for games that have received a lot of positive reviews. Maybe I'm the only stupid dumb ass around that doesn't understand why people give good reviews to games that have some pretty visible flaws in game mechanics, character(s) (build(s)), weird story choices, horrible balancing, infinite boringness etc. Having grown with the first two prequels from the 90's, maybe I'm just...
whitey_whitemanRecommendedafter 61hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, DirectX 9 GPU with 1GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Satellite Reign scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 21. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/268870/satellite-reign
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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 Nov 6, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-4
Critics75
Players71
Metacritic critics · 5,385 Steam player reviews

Details

Developer5 Lives Studios
Publisher5 Lives Studios
GenreAction
Released2015
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements40