Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 1.3h 5h to 100%
- Value
- $5.38/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 353 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 48 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Ultionus is a love-letter to the home computer arcade games of the late 80s and early 90s, with colorful 2D visuals, catchy chiptune music by the legendary Jake 'Virt' Kaufman, and 7 stages of hard-as-nails gameplay.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 61 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 97 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 7 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. Gato Roboto ($1.19, scores 93) outscores it, and so does Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition ($19.99, scores 26). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.3 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 3.8 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
14% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Extremely short. What you see in the screenshots are all the levels in the game. I got a bad ending. Why? Who knows!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge scores 21/100 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/279160/ultionus-a-tale-of-petty-revengeReviews 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.