Good Robot

Good Robot

Fair · Roguelike · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.6h 6.4h to 100%
Value
$2.50/hr
Reviews
84% of 265 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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, at about $1.79 (80% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in 7 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

Holding it back
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 82% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.50/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 18 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Good Robot is a fast-paced roguelike shoot-em-up that pits you against thousands of robots out to violate your warranty. Explore a procedurally generated sci-fi metropolis and the depths of corporate depravity, but never stop shooting...unless, of course, you're a Bad Robot. You're not, are you?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible graphics card with 1 GB memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

57 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 45 percent on value. It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Lizard Survivors: Battle for Hyperborea ($0.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats AK-xolotl: Together ($18.99, scores 37).

More about Good Robot

Critics scored it 67. Players sit 17 points higher at 84 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

The drop-off

43% start to 4% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

It is a very simple rouge type game. Nothing to big, but it was a easy game, to play for fun!
OmegaBrazzleRecommendedafter 12hMay 2024Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
No time for a review so I give this game a rank D. Mediocre game - sadly you can forget it.. See my profile for more details about my reviews. Additional notes: on the fence on this one, it is not bad and I could have put a thumbs up, but since it has "Very Positive reviews", my review won't do it much harm but counterbalance it a bit instead, as I reckon this game should get Mixed or Mostly Positive at best... It...
HemNot recommendedafter 4.1hJan 2023Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Good Robot scores 53/100 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/358830/good-robot
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.

Critics vs players+17
Critics67
Players84
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 265 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPyrodactyl
PublisherPyrodactyl
GenreRoguelike
Released2016
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements32