RIVE
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 94% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$0.8994% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.49/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 1,059
- Genre rank
- Top 42% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.89 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.3h
- To 100%
- 12.9h 3.0x the story
- Finish
- 1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 44
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $0.89 February 2025
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 33% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 62% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
63% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
79 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 42 percent. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blazing Chrome ($4.24, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Really Big Sky ($4.99, scores 42).
More about RIVE
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 242 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.3 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 3.0 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 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
really fun and chaotic shooter with tons of explosions and fast gameplay the hacking mechanic is pretty cool and the whole game has that old school arcade feel
1 more review
Control armed vehicle across factory like levels set in space presumably. Action is decent like in Sega games, controls smooth and enjoyable. Challenging boss fights and general mayhem! At your disposal many cool weapons but what's the most important, story that is engaging. Play it but keep in mind your thumbs are gonna get sore so replace them with new ones.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce 8000 series (discrete), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
RIVE scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/278100/riveReviews 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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.