Raptor: Call of the Shadows (1994 Classic Edition)
Worth it · Action · 2014
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 4.6h 8.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.65/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 237 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 150 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
Become a mercenary of the future and pilot the super-tech Raptor. Embark on interplanetary missions to knock off top competitors of MegaCorp, battle against hordes of relentless enemies and spend the bounty to expand your devastating arsenal, which can be upgraded with 14 hardcore weapons!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 34 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 83 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 21 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Commander Keen ($4.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Contra Anniversary Collection ($19.99, scores 34).
What players say
Paid 89 cents for this, one of my childhood games I played with my father and finally finished over 25 years later, lol. Great game for a nice day, or for a few more days if you fancy a challenge in the hard modes. It held up incredibly well all these years later.
2 more reviews
If you want to play this game, you have a choice between this (The original) or the 2015 version. You would think the 2015 version is automatically better, but a lot of the design choices are perplexingly terrible. This game runs in Dosbox so it isn't as smooth on modern consoles. You also don't have the option to remap the controls. This game never crashed on me, though, and the 2015 version did. This version is...
Classic old-school shoot-em-up (vertical shooter) with incredibly good graphics for its age. Addictive and fun. My only complaint is that Outer Regions is a very sudden jump in difficulty compared to Tango Sector and the last few levels especially are overtuned for the Twin Laser, making them near-impossible if you were unable to purchase one due to having gone through too many Phase Shields in earlier levels.
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Raptor: Call of the Shadows (1994 Classic Edition) scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/358360/raptor-call-of-the-shadows-1994-classic-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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.