PARTICLE MACE
Worth it · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 1,367
- Genre rank
- Top 10% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3h
- To 100%
- 8.8h 2.9x the story
- Achievements
- 21
Price and sales
- Sales
- 45 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $0.19 October 2015
- Sale every
- 33d last January 2020
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 75% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
9% start to 4% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 45 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 354 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 10 percent. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TowerFall Ascension ($14.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Scott Pilgrim vs. The World™: The Game – Complete Edition ($14.99, scores 29).
More about PARTICLE MACE
Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 475 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 2.9 times as long.
At 3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2477 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Fly around and swing your mace trying to hit blocky asteroids and enemies, that's it.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
In 2024, no. It's like a budget Geometry Wars, but you don't shoot. Your ship has a tail that you whip around to hit targets. You have to use the inertia of your ship to get the tail in motion. Resorting to quick direction changes and spinning in circles is what works best. Sounds like a refreshing idea, but it quickly gets boring as there is next to no variety. So many better choices out there these days.
Swinging 🍜 & meatballs at high velocity incurs damage to poorly built triangle ships and polygonal asteroids
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A space game about swinging trash into things and dying.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
PARTICLE MACE scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/295690/particle-maceReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.