Slave Zero

Slave Zero

Skip · Shooter · 2014

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$6.99Skip

On its price record

$5.43Fair

Length
5.5h 6.5h to 100%
Value
$1.27/hr
Reviews
79% of 295 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.43 or less.

Buy now or wait

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

Holding it back
Value$1.27/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 78% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 128 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

It's 500 years in the future. Man and machine are virtually one, and the greatest megacity in the world is locked in a brutal war. Your mission: steal the largest, most sophisticated bio-mechanical attack weapon ever designed...and kick some serious ass!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 100% DirectX \ nGlide compatible graphics. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 79 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 44 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Vanquish ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats CosmicBreak Universal (free, scores 4).

More about Slave Zero

Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

There are a lot of hidden gems from the older ages of computer gaming. Some still hold strong today, some had that certain gameplay and style that clicked well and will forever hold their places in gaming history. This isn't one of those games. Slave Zero was kinda jank when it was first released, and has not aged well since. The designs were always quaint, being love letters to older mecha anime like Evangelion...
DaconNot recommendedafter 5.3hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A moderately fun game, but the crosshair being off and the missile lock system not working make it hard to recommend, even on sale. I had problems with the game stuttering randomly, mostly during boss fights. Gameplay itself is decent, but the final boss is just really annoying with his only damageable part being a small part of his head. I liked running around in the city levels and being able to see cars swerve to...
meh280Not recommendedafter 7.8hMar 2026Read on Steam
THIS WAS PEEK OF THE 1999s NOT ONLY DID THEY HAVE LIVE CUTSEENS That Rostar didnt invent BUT when you swich from 3d to first person Mode You Can SEE YOUR LAGES Eat your heart out 2000+ games What your exsuses
Just Another MonsterRecommendedafter 2.1hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Slave Zero scores 47/100 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/328470/slave-zero
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperAccolade, Inc.
PublisherZiggurat
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate