RADical ROACH Remastered
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 56% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 348 MB of storage. Windows only.
RADical ROACH is a fast paced shoot em’ up, set minutes after nuclear hell falls from the sky engulfing all but a few tough little bugs.
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The value story
It is less well reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Streamer Life Simulator ($19.99, scores 38) outscores it, and so does Plebby Quest: The Crusades ($19.99, scores 46). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data says about 4 percent of players ever finish it. On a 1.1-hour game, that is a lot of evenings most people never spend.
Finishing takes 1.1 hours; clearing it takes 3, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
It is still busy. 8 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
6% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 1.1-hour game, that's a lot of time most people never put in. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
RADical ROACH Remastered is a side-scrolling arcade shooter developed and published by DL Softworks that takes a deliberately ridiculous concept and turns it into a fast-paced action game filled with colorful visuals, nonstop enemy encounters, and old-school arcade sensibilities. Set in a bizarre post-nuclear future, the game places players in the role of a mutated cockroach that has survived a global catastrophe...
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A sidescroller shoot 'em up that feels straight out of the Flash era. To put it bluntly, everything in this game is mediocre. The concept and story, the visuals and graphics, the soundtrack and overall sound design, the shooting and powers, the enemies. There's nothing that catches the eye or makes it worthwhile to play. Every part of the game is unrefined and can't compete with today's standards. Not worth the time.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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RADical ROACH Remastered scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/301750/radical-roach-remasteredThe 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 13.
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