Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition
Skip · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 4.6h 8.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.65/hr
- Reviews
- 72% of 618 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 126 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
The great action-crazed, guns blazing, shoot ‘em up game comes back straight out of the ‘90s. Raptor: Call of the Shadows and its futuristic world are ready to challenge your flying skills.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 48 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 18 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 40 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. On the same math LUFTRAUSERS ($9.99, scores 74) and Planes, Bullets and Vodka ($0.49, scores 69) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition
2 of the 257 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 210 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
45% start to 7% 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
Know how satisfying it is to smash bubble-wraps?? Well, Raptor C.O.T.S. is the 'bubble-wrap smashing for me! I go through it again and again and again.
2 more reviews
I kinda hate shmup games. Most are way too hard to really be much fun. I am 45, I don't have reflexes like a cat, and I don't want to memorize every single enemy spawn just to have a chance at finishing this game. Which is why I love this game. Its totally beatable by the average gamer, you don't need to be a shmup freak. I also love that it is has an upgrade store. Not frantic upgrades you die trying to get, and...
I played this the first time as kid on my father's PC via a demo on the PC magazine CD. So much good memories and my first touch point with vertical Shoot-'em-up games that then I later played a lot on arcade machines. All just to point out that wouldn't the game been a good representer of its genre, I wouldn't spend many more hours on the genre. I loved the over the edge military scenario, weapon and enemy variety...
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Cite this score
Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition scores 33/100 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/336060/raptor-call-of-the-shadows-2015-editionReviews 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.