The Great Rebellion
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $15.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.9h
- Value
- $2.71/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 582 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
The Great Rebellion is a cyberpunk 2D sidescrolling run'n'gun roguelite using mouse/twinstick-shooter controls. It features randomly generated levels, multiple difficulty modes (including optional permadeath), a dynamic soundtrack and an upgradeable player character.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 660M, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 21 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Neon Abyss ($4.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos ($12.99, scores 24).
More about The Great Rebellion
1 of the 320 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 283 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
68% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Yes. This is the kind of game we need, a game to spark a rebellion against modern insanity
2 more reviews
I played a lot of 2D shooters when was a midget, and playing this game takes me back to those golden ages of 2D shooter games, besides that. pick up gun. inspect gun. brain happy. shoot gun. gun go pew pew. sad head voice goes quiet. shoot enemies. increase thirst to kill more. create chaos. get a adrenaline rush. take guns and kick ass. run out of ammo. resort to fists rebel and chew gum. run out of gum. continue...
fun though unballanced shooter its techically right wing but rather shy about anything real preffering sentiment over substance gameplaywise difficulty is highly dependant on rng with some weapons like the rave cannon trivialising even the final boss and others being very meh technically infintely replayable but every room is pretty much a box filled wit enemies so once ye have beaten nightmare ye have seen...
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Cite this score
The Great Rebellion scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2732820/the-great-rebellionReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.