Metal Garden
BANGER · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $5.99.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Value
- $3.74/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD RX 560 (or equivalent), 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.19. That was February 2026. It has been discounted 7 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 11 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, INDUSTRIA ($19.99, scores 25) and ARMORED HEAD ($4.99, scores 84) both come in lower.
Steam's global achievement data puts 62 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 440 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 1,655 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
73% start to 62% 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
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 23:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A short, simplistic shooter, reminicint of Half Life. The gameplay was nothing particularly noteworthy but I thought the world was excellent, I loved the simple, yet poiniant writing which hinted at things just beyond the horizon. I liked all the notes and excerpts I found in my playthrough. If you're looking for a glimpse into an interesesting world, I recommend this one. If you're a fan of megastructure sci-fi...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Metal Garden scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3539440/metal-gardenReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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