GIGANTIC ARMY
Skip · Shooter · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $5.99.
- Length
- 1.4h 4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.28/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 367 positive
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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
Side-scrolling mech-shooting bad-assery is BACK!GIGANTIC ARMY is a heartfelt homage to 16-bit era mech shooters such as Cybernator / Assault Suits Valken, Metal Warriors, and Front Mission: Gun Hazard, developed by the studio behind the acclaimed shooter SATAZIUS.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX9-compatible GeForce or Radeon recommended, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 108 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. On the same math Mighty Goose ($19.99, scores 51) and BIT.TRIP RUNNER ($9.99, scores 64) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about GIGANTIC ARMY
Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 128 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 62 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.4 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
65% 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
The game is rather short. However, it is quite fun. I can recommend it since it's good.
2 more reviews
(Prefix: This was purchased for 2.39 on sale, so your value and enjoyment derived from that point, may vary.) This game shouldn't be divisive. First and foremost, the major observations and complaints in most of the reviews are real things within the game. There is slow movement, a time limit, no checkpoints, a credit system, and a low weapon variety. However, from my perspective, these read WAY worse than they...
C'mon Mech time. Difficulty is, you got to want it, prepare to die, you can do it. Memory, strategy and timing will get you you through, even though the slide/dash only works some of the time for me so I just don't use it and still can complete. Time to complete is less than 20 minutes, actual time after memorising enemy moves and acquiring strategy could be hours all in all. Overall I really do like this game, good...
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Cite this score
GIGANTIC ARMY scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/278930/gigantic-armyReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.