Bombshell
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $34.99.
- Length
- 9.7h 14.3h to 100%
- Value
- $3.61/hr
- Reviews
- 58% of 423 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2457 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Bombshell is an Action Shooter game in which bomb disposal technician turned mercenary for hire, Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison must strong-arm her way across 4 planets in a galactic adventure to rescue the president (and humanity) from an apocalyptic alien threat.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
9 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 351 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. On the same math The Ascent ($29.99, scores 36) and Halo: Spartan Strike ($2.99, scores 57) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Bombshell
Critics scored it 43. Players sit 15 points higher at 58 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
The drop-off
43% start to 2% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 20:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's an "ok" game. It's filled with bugs, I lost many lives because of them, but still have some fun playing it. Too bad the game is abandoned and it seems that we are never going to get the promised "super patch" that was going to fix everything. Game looked promising, but needs A LOT of polish I say if it's on discount, and you don't mind rage quitting some times with some bugs... go for it. But don't expect...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A slick twin-stick, isometric action shooter game with some light rpg mechanics in the form of linear questing and skill trees sprinkled in. You play Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison, former bomb disposal technician turned mercenary, in an interplanetary adventure to rescue the president from an apocalyptic alien threat. The story doesn't take itself too seriously, and I wouldn't call it a must-see experience. I did find...
"It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces." ~James Frey, A Million Little Pieces So. Twin-stick shooters, huh? As Beavis and Butt-head would say, twin-stick shooters are cool. And it's not like those are rocket science or something. All you need to do is to make "pew-pew-pew" satisfying. The list of what's not to do, on the other hand? That thing is quite long. Let's take a look at some most...
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Cite this score
Bombshell scores 3/100 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/353190/bombshellReviews 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.