Axiom Verge

Axiom Verge

Fair · Shooter · 2015

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
6,636 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
80
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2015
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 502 MB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4400, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds4 of 685 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

The value story

December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 81 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 39 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Environmental Station Alpha ($7.99, scores 60) outscores it, and so does Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

Critics scored it 80. Players sit 10 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

This site sampled 685 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 424 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

81% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

17 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 22:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Axiom Verge scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/332200/axiom-verge
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Reviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+10
Critics
80
Players
90
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 6,636 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperThomas Happ Games LLC
PublisherThomas Happ Games LLC
GenreShooter
Released2015
Achievements29