Black Ice
Fair · Shooter · 2014 · Early Access
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 675 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $16.07 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each 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
Hack greedy megacorps to help as many people as you can in a high-agility cyberpunk looter/shooter RPG. Explore neon cyberspace vistas and outmaneuver AIs to customize your hacker OS and weapon combos. Play solo or online co-op with up to 10 people!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia 10 Series or Equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 46 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 15 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SurrounDead ($11.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Death Trash ($19.99, scores 62).
More about Black Ice
This site sampled 228 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026.
The drop-off
94% start to <1% 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
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 22:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
shoot evil things get power use power to shoot bigger eviler things win game fun times
2 more reviews
As this game is still getting gamechanging updates- I might or might not update this as time advances... After twelve years, I think it's fair to write a review finally... Yes, you read that right. This game has been in EA for about 12 years now but is getting constant updates. And I remember the early days, when there was no verticality- no 'Arcade' and whatever the game is now. It has changed. And in my eyes, this...
I bought this game years ago when it was a basic 2d landscape. The dev has stuck with it and I've come back like 2 years later and it's a fully 3d with story experience. It's an early access game the dev actually cares about.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Black Ice scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/311800/black-iceReviews 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.