Zexion
Fair · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.6h 25.9h to 100%
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 574 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $15.52 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $9.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 43 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72! Be warned, you aren't the only one seeking the forbidden technology known as Zexion! It will take cunning and valor to succeed in this action-packed sci-fi adventure!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 support required, 51 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
Across all 16 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($1.19, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Axiom Verge ($19.99, scores 51).
More about Zexion
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 351 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026.
The main story runs 9.6 hours. Doing everything runs 26, 2.7 times as long.
At 9.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
84% start to 31% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 10:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Genuinely one of the best metroidvanias I've ever played. The game trusts you to find your way around, it's non-linear, has interesting powerups that aren't just recreation of Metroid powerups, and has a ton to explore. It's also a bit frustrating to play, as this one developer seemingly has a better understanding of Metroid than the Dread devs did. The only real negatives I can muster up for the game: 1. If you...
2 more reviews
metroidvania turned bullet hell by the end with a nicely made map, good upgrades, slick movement and good boss design. tons of checkpoints too so no runbacks, if thats what you're into.
A fine metroidvania that's probably a little too hard at times, all things considered. Checkpointing at bosses alleviates this problem for the most part, but sometimes the checkpoints are so generous it makes me wonder if the difficulty should've been tamped down a bit from the get go. Sometimes checkpoints aren't so generous either, leading to frustrating progress loss/rewalks, particularly to the difficult...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Zexion scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3392510/zexionReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.