Rise & Shine
Skip · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 2.5h 4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 910 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
Welcome to Gamearth, a once peaceful planet now threatened by the warmongering Space grunts of Nexgen. In the aftermath of their devastating first strike a child named Rise is forced to take on the sacred gun Shine - and with it the fate of his world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB of Video Memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
43 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef ($19.99, scores 65) outscores it, and so does RIVE ($1.04, scores 64). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Rise & Shine
Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 122 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
43% start to 1% 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
Rise and Shine is a near miss. It has a weird thing going on that you don't often see, where the game is very polished, yet it also feels incomplete in almost every way. The game is a side scrolling twin stick shooter, you use your gun to both blast enemies and solve puzzles. Both aspects are well done, the gunplay feels good and the puzzles are tricky and clever. The problem lies in that the gameplay never builds...
1 more review, not recommended
Tooo short. I know it's a small indie game and not comparable to AAA one (like Prince of Persia I recently played), but it was 2-3 hours long for me
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Rise & Shine scores 22/100 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/347290/rise-shineReviews 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.