Polarity
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Length
- 1.2h
- Value
- $10.83/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible video card, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Polarity takes it to the next level, demanding all of your wits and reflexes. Full-featured local co-op campaign.
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
May 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.19. It has been discounted 56 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Among the games that feel like it, Half Dead ($1.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Escape From School (free, scores 8).
This site sampled 219 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 2,136 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 58 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.2 hours. Doing everything runs 3, 2.6 times as long.
The drop-off
60% 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
What players say
Once I load into the game, I can't move at all. I tried all my keys, restarted the game and such. Terrible this is.
Not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came today; An angel visited this blue path And took the fun away.
Polarity is a decent Portal-esque puzzle platformer with both singleplayer and local coop levels. Note: There is no cloud save. Polarity's game save is located in the registry at this location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bluebutton Games\Polarity The levels are somewhat clunky and sometimes unclear. Unless you buy everything vaguely resembling Portal, try to get this for around $5--it's definitely worthwhile at that...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Polarity scores 36/100 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/315430/polarityReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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