Metal Thunder
Skip · Roguelike · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $10.99.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $3.05/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 613 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $7.36 (33% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 48 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Command the legendary gunship in a high-octane action-roguelite! Engage insurgents with devastating firepower in ever-changing missions. Upgrade your arsenal, adapt to dynamic challenges, and survive relentless waves of enemies. Every run offers new tactics and chaos as you dominate the skies.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 670, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 21 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 64 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Vietnam War ($14.99, scores 36) beats it on value, while it beats WWII Online (free, scores 0).
More about Metal Thunder
13 of the 427 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 31 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 220 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
At 3.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
95% start to 3% 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
What players say
Look, it's basically a $10 game. It's still in the works, so it's only 1 mode so far. The creator says zombies will be a thing soon. Fingers crossed. Good mind numbing game, gets dicey but gun go BURRR. Me like.
1 more review, not recommended
i was going to recommend this game but i no longer can the devs said the zombie mode was coming out at the end of the month that was 3 months ago. i can not recommend anything from devs that say one thing then do another. there is no accountability in this day and age in the gaming market and its just not something im alright with.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Metal Thunder scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3091340/metal-thunderReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.