Borealis
Skip · Action · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 6, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 0.7h 5.1h to 100%
- Value
- $7.13/hr
- Reviews
- 59% of 505 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Weave through missiles to generated music, and let the world flow around you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 6800 or better (integrated graphics required), 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 21 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 22 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. On the same math Superflight ($2.99, scores 93) and Beat Hazard 2 ($5.69, scores 62) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Borealis
The main story runs 0.7 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 7.3 times as long.
The drop-off
20% start to 6% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Borealis scores 6/100 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/307170/borealisReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.