Xeodrifter
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.1h 3.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.22/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 861 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 287 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
Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D Graphics Card, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
75 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 41 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 35 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. On the same math Leap Year ($3.99, scores 93) and Gato Roboto ($1.19, scores 93) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Xeodrifter
Of the 257 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 197 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
60% start to 4% 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
You cannot play this game in fullscreen anymore. No fix I found is working. The game is also running twice as fast as normal, if you have a monitor with a refresh rate higher than 60 Hz. It seems the devs are too lazy to fix these issues.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
This game was not for me. The play it until the skill and luck line up is too frustrating for a guy like me with limited time for gaming. I need a higher effort-to-fun payoff.
Considering that this is the developer's second game, it does display a lot of potential. However, Xeodrifter does leave a lot to be desired. I believe the game excels the most at it's visuals, music and general atmosphere. The pixel art is generally very well done and each planet is very memorable, with very solid, albeit simple level design. But simple does not mean bad, as Xeodrifter does offer a nice, bite-sized...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Xeodrifter scores 36/100 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/319140/xeodrifterReviews 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.