SUPERHOT
Fair · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $4.82, only fair at $24.99.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Value
- $10.41/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 650 (1024 MB Ram), 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in July 2022. It has been discounted 99 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 4 weeks. No sale on record has reached $4.82, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
On value it sits in the top 27 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Severed Steel ($2.49, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE ($24.99, scores 48).
The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 4 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 28 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 106 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 4,972 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.4 hours; clearing it takes 20, which is 8.3 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
87% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 2.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
43 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
SUPERHOT is one of those games where the central idea is so simple that it is astonishing nobody had properly built a shooter around it before. Time moves normally only when you move. Stand still and bullets almost hang in the air, enemies slow to a crawl and you are given a moment to consider your next action. You are not particularly durable, ammunition is limited and you're forced to live in a John Wick movie...
The most innovative shooter I've played in years Very fun bullet time game where time moves when you move Has tons of extra content outside of the base story like the terminals, endless maps, and challenge modes The Hercules achievement was really hard to get because of NORESTART challenge but otherwise an extremely fun bullet time FPS game that is definitely worth your money 10/10 game
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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SUPERHOT scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/322500/superhotThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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