Nitro Express
Skip · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $4.33/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 3 of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($9.09)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($7.79)
- Last discount ended
- 94 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Nitro Express is a 2D side-view gun action game where cute pixel-art girls shoot assault weapons with 360° free aiming in the streets of Japan!
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.79, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 7 in the 17 months tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 13 weeks ago.
The games it most resembles do better on the same math. pureya ($5.99, scores 90) and Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef ($19.99, scores 65) both outscore it.
This site sampled 559 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 324 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
At 3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
What players say
A charming Metal Slug-lite, done in a cute pixel anime style. The variety of enemies isn't very high, but the game gives you an impressive & entertaining variety of weapons to try out on them. The characters and the plot are done in the classic moé anime style, like if you combined Lucky Star and an unused Richard Donner script. If you like Metal Slug and you like cute anime girls, give this game a look.
In a world where the Japanese metropolitan police have infinite money use lasers, rifles and an RPG we got off the Yakuza to destroy rogue robots and save the citizens of Tokyo and decimate the local fish population (this is a fishing minigame with guns and it's actually quite good Anyway, good little game can't recommend more
Its price is a little steep but its a charming game for all of its thorns, a good game to snag on sale and play for a few sessions for ten or twenty hours. The characters and art are very cute, the story is pretty decent and had a strong ending, the gameplay is pretty decent with a decent amount of variety in weapon/gadget loadouts and unlockables. The soundtrack is BANGIN. There's a handful of touchy issues you...
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Cite this score
Nitro Express scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3088250/nitro-expressReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 2.
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