Boson X
Worth it · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.3h
- Value
- $1.51/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 1.5. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Boson X is a fast-paced rotational runner set in a particle accelerator.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.29, set in September 2015. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 63 in the 12 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Orbt XL ($0.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Vecter (free, scores 73).
None of the 256 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 339 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.3 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
66% start to 12% 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
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 09:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I'm not very good at running through s c i e n c e but somehow I keep coming back.
A 2014 game that can be beat in about 8h, honestly it is quite addictive. The gameplay loop is simple and great, I would recommend to use a controller tho.
Every time I played Boson X it dealt both physical and psychic damage to me. My entire body would hurt after a session. I beat the game last night and immediately uninstalled it. I want to play it more but wish to never see it again.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Boson X scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/302610/boson-xReviews 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 20, price as of Oct 1.
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