SteamWorld Heist
Worth it · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $13.88.
- Length
- 12.5h
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 317 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.04. That was April 2024. It has been discounted 90 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. The math puts its BANGER price at $13.88. The record reaches that level 87 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pit People® ($19.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats SteamWorld Heist II ($29.99, scores 76).
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 13 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 499 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 314 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
83% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
14 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 08:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Simplicity is a Feature Does this game have as deep tactical combat as X-COM? No! And it doesn't need to! You get just enough options to make things interesting with randomly generated arenas (ship interiors) in which to fight. You can customize your squad, deck them out with better weapons, and make them wear fancy hats. If you catch this game on sale and you JUST want to have fun without needing a Wiki open in...
After having tried multiple steamworld games, I have to declare this one as the best. Which is hard to believe, given the simplicity of gameplay, but it has a very good look and feel.
I thought this was going to be a small fun game to 100% to kill some time before Palworld 1.0, and it was... Until it isn't . Don't be fooled by the nice casual mobile-ish looking screenshots. this game is anything but casual. 3 Acts with around 15 missions each act, doesn't take too long to finish but already overstayed its welcome near the end because the combat is as shallow as a puddle, missions are so...
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Cite this score
SteamWorld Heist scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/322190/steamworld-heistReviews 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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