Satellite Reign
Skip · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 21.1h
- Value
- $1.42/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
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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.
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.
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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, typically at 85 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. On the same math Transistor ($19.99, scores 72) and Heat Signature ($14.99, scores 84) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 21.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 437 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 411 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
62% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 21.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
You might get a little bit lost at first, the tutorial promises great things but you end up being a noob in the unforgiving streets. Give it a few quests and a few upgrades and you start becoming what you thought you would be. And it starts getting funnier and funnier. The only flaw i've found in this game is that not every mission brief is narrated, only the main ones. Other than that it's a great game, with some...
Great game have played through about 4 times now great atmosphere and fun levels to explore and play through.
It's seriously awful. Controls are a joke, and if you are looking for a worthy syndicate successor, this isn't it.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Satellite Reign scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/268870/satellite-reignThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 23.
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