Astebreed: Definitive Edition
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $11.11/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: Shader Model 3.0 compatible, GeForce 8600GT (2007 model) or better. Windows only.
Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.
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The value story
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 107 in the 12 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 35 percent on value. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Distant Space ($0.99, scores 58) and Bit Blaster XL ($0.99, scores 97) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data puts 57 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 1 of the 332 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 562 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.8 hours. Doing everything runs 18, 10 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
57% start to 57% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game was a ride, I beat it twice in less then two hours on two difficulties. Way too easy. The story tries to pack in some emotion and feel but comes off so hilarious that it's worth playing just for that. I could refund it now, having already got everything out of it. But it's just too much of an oddity to let go of. I'll give it a recommend just because it's likely the safest purchase ever, beat it a few...
Interesting shmup, you ride powerful mech and have to fight a whole army of bullet hell enemies. Positive: 1. Great soundtrack 2, Interesting art and character. 3. Innovative gameplay mechanic, the shmup atmosphere can switch vertical or horizontal depends on state of the game map, also the mech is very powerful, it can melee attack, shoot and do power attack stuffs. It also regenerate its health. It is quite fair...
This is not the way of the STG. This is: ✍️ A Theory of Shmup Evolution By: Joseph Salomonsen Gradius → R-Type → Darius → Toaplan → Cave / Treasure / G.rev 🟨 Foundations - Designed Space Gradius (Konami, 1985) The origin of control: resource systems, checkpoints, and authored space. The player shapes their ship to survive the level. R-Type (Irem, 1987) The Force system: space becomes weaponized. A slow, methodical...
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Astebreed: Definitive Edition scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/283680/astebreed-definitive-editionThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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